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MOURNIVALS
Definition of MOURNIVALS
noun
plural of mournival
noun
In the game of gleek, and other card games, a set of four cards of the same face value.
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Word DNA
MOURNIVALS inherits its ancestry from its root, MOURNIVAL.
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,282)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MOURNIVAL · 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.
MOURNIVALS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 71, 30 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 123, 20 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 40 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 71, 30 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MOURNIVALS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AILMNORSUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MOURNI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MOURNIVALS?
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 71 - and most players walked straight past it.
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