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MULCTED

7 letters

Definition of MULCTED

verb

simple past and past participle of mulct

MULCT

noun

A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.

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Word DNA

MULCTED inherits its ancestry from its root, MULCT.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (25,613)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, MULCT · 3 relatives in the game

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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.

MULCTED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 168
Its 20 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
20
Boards found on
72
First board
166
Latest board
27
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

typhoonjim

on Day 72, 31 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MULCTED
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found MULCTED?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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