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MUNCH
Definition of MUNCH
verb
To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English monchen, a variant of mocchen, mucchen ("to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal mouch), probably imitative in origin (compare English crunch; German mampfen).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.2%
of traced words share this origin (5,004)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MUNCH · 11 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names German.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MUNCH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 54 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 5, 26 May 2026.
Built from these letters
MUNCH starts with M and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read CHMNU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MUNCH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 5
Could you have found MUNCH?
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 5 - and most players walked straight past it.
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