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MUSER

5 letters

Definition of MUSER

noun

One who muses.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English musere. By surface analysis, muse + -er.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.1%

of traced words share this origin (4,784)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-er

Same root, MUSER · 1 relative in the game

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

MUSER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 156
Its 14 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
13
First board
153
Latest board
37
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

woodvaletoo

on Day 13, 2 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start MUSER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MUSER?

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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.

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