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MUSCOVADO
Definition of MUSCOVADO
noun
An unrefined brown sugar with a strong flavour of molasses.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Corrupted from Spanish mascabado or Portuguese mascavado, from the verb mascavar, a corrupted form of menoscabar (“to despise”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MUSCOVADO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 58, 17 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 58, 17 July 2026.
Built from these letters
MUSCOVADO starts with M and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read ACDMOOSUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start MUSCOV
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 58
Could you have found MUSCOVADO?
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 58 - and most players walked straight past it.
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