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MUCKSWEAT

9 letters

Definition of MUCKSWEAT

noun

Alternative form of muck sweat.

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Word DNA

MUCKSWEAT inherits its ancestry from its root, MUCK.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. Latin
  3. Welsh
  4. Proto-Indo-European
  5. Proto-Germanic
  6. Danish
  7. Icelandic
  8. Old English
  9. Old Norse
  10. Middle English
  11. English

10 recorded generations before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.2%

of traced words share this origin (9,700)

Hellenic

branch · 12.2% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, MUCK · 10 relatives in the game

Every Ancient Greek 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.

MUCKSWEAT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 161
Its 2 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
148
First board
156
Latest board
8
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 148, 15 October 2026.

Built from these letters

MUCKSWEAT
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

MUCKSWEAT starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACEKMSTUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start MUCKSW

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

MUCKSWEATS

Could you have found MUCKSWEAT?

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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.

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