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MOUSELIKE
Definition of MOUSELIKE
adjective
Resembling or characteristic of a mouse (rodent); as, a mouselike squeak, mouselike timidity.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
MOUSELIKE carries 2 further meanings.
adverb
In a mouselike way
adjective
of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse
“mousy hair”
Where it comes from
From mouse + -like.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
MOUSELIKE in a sentence
“Tamerah Hunt, a senior at Oxon Hill High School, started last summer devising an experiment that would break new ground in the behavior of two types of vole, a shy, mouselike creature.”
National Zoo reopens, but it's far from business as usual, 2011
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MOUSELIKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 112 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 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
MOUSELIKE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EEIKLMOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of MOUSELIKE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found MOUSELIKE?
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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