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MUGGED

6 letters

Definition of MUGGED

verb

simple past and past participle of mug

MUG

symbol

ISO 639-3 language code for Musgu.

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Word DNA

MUGGED inherits its ancestry from its root, MUG.

Line of descent

  1. Old Norse
  2. Old English
  3. Dutch
  4. Danish
  5. Norwegian
  6. Swedish
  7. German
  8. English

7 recorded generations before English.

Old Norse

Deepest traced root

14th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1%

of traced words share this origin (853)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, MUG · 9 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Middle English, Scots.

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

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

MUGGED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 175
Its one board, across 175 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
173
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

mochicat

on Day 173, 9 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MUGGED
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MUGGED starts with M and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEGGMU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. G appears more than once, including a double letter.

Could you have found MUGGED?

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 173 - and most players walked straight past it.

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