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MULCHY
Definition of MULCHY
adjective
Resembling or characteristic of mulch.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From mulch + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, MULCH · 8 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MULCHY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 171, 7 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 171, 7 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MULCHY starts with M and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CHLMUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found MULCHY?
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 171 - and most players walked straight past it.
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