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MOUNTINGS

9 letters

Definition of MOUNTINGS

noun

plural of mounting

MOUNTING

adjective

That continues to mount; steadily rising or accumulating.

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Word DNA

MOUNTINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, MOUNT.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (25,330)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, MOUNT · 7 relatives in the game

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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.

MOUNTINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 166
Its 2 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
145
First board
166
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

cjmusic

on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MOUNTINGS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

MOUNTINGS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read GIMNNOSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.

Words that start MOUNTI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MOUNTINGS?

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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.

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