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MOULDINESS

10 letters

Definition of MOULDINESS

noun

The state or quality of being mouldy.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From mouldy + -ness.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-ness

Same root, MOULD · 14 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

MOULDINESS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its one board, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
162
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

grinninggoose

on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MOULDINESS
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

MOULDINESS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEILMNOSSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start MOULDI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MOULDINESS?

OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 162 - and most players walked straight past it.

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