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MUCHES
Definition of MUCHES
Wiktionary has no entry for MUCHES itself. This is its base word, MUCH.
determiner
A large amount of.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for MUCH.
From Middle English muche (“much, great”), apocopated variant of muchel (“much, great”), from Old English myċel, miċel (“big, much”), from Proto-West Germanic *mikil, from Proto-Germanic *mikilaz (“great, many, much”), from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂- (“big, stour, great”). See also mickle, muckle. Cognate with Scots mickle, mukill, mekil, mikil (“big, large, great, much”), Middle Dutch mēkel (“great, many, much”), Middle High German michel ("great, many, much"; > German michel (“great, big, large”)), Norwegian Bokmål mye (“much”), Norwegian Nynorsk mykje (“much”), Swedish mycket (“much”), Danish meget (“much”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌺𐌹𐌻𐍃 (mikils, “great, many”), Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “large, great”), Modern Greek μεγάλος (megálos, “large, great”). Note that English much is not related to Spanish mucho, and their resemblance in both form and meaning is purely coincidental, as mucho derives from Latin multus and is not related to the Germanic forms. Instead, related to Spanish maño.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MUCHES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
Built from these letters
MUCHES starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEHMSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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