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MUCKENDERS

10 letters

Definition of MUCKENDERS

noun

plural of muckender

MUCKENDER

noun

A handkerchief.

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Word DNA

MUCKENDERS inherits its ancestry from its root, MUCKENDER.

Line of descent

  1. Old Occitan
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old Occitan

Deepest traced root

47th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.1%

of traced words share this origin (51)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, MUCKENDER · 1 relative in the game

Every Old Occitan word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

MUCKENDERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its 4 boards, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
170
First board
173
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 170, 6 November 2026. The most recent board was Day 173, 9 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

rustyPATRONContributor

on Day 170, 6 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MUCKENDERS
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start MUCKEN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MUCKENDERS?

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 170 - and most players walked straight past it.

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