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MOULIN
Definition of MOULIN
noun
A cylindrical, vertical shaft that extends through a glacier and is carved by meltwater from the glacier’s surface.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French moulin, from Late Latin molinum (“mill”). Doublet of moline and mill.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,764)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MOULIN · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MOULIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 133, 30 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MOULIN starts with M and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ILMNOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MOULIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MOULIN?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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