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MULETA
Definition of MULETA
noun
A red flag used by bullfighters.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Spanish muleta, diminutive of mula (“mule”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Spanish
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.6%
of traced words share this origin (411)
branch · 15.1% 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.
MULETA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 129, 26 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 129, 26 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MULETA starts with M and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AELMTU - 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 MULETA?
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 129 - and most players walked straight past it.
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