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MOUND
Definition of MOUND
noun
An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundu, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”). Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“guardian”)), Icelandic and Old Norse mund (“hand”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”). Not related to mount.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MOUND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 2, 23 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MOUND starts with M and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DMNOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MOUND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 2
Could you have found MOUND?
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 2 - and most players walked straight past it.
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