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MULET
Definition of MULET
noun
A male mule.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French mulet.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (902)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MULET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 158, 25 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 171, 7 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 158, 25 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MULET starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ELMTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MULET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MULET?
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 158 - and most players walked straight past it.
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