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MOURN
Definition of MOURN
verb
To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (990)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MOURN · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names French.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MOURN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 87 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 8, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MOURN starts with M and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read MNORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MOURN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MOURN?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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