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MUSKELLUNGE
Definition of MUSKELLUNGE
noun
A large freshwater gamefish of the pike family, native to the lakes and rivers of eastern and middle western North America; Esox masquinongy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French masque allongé (literally “long mask”), a corruption of Ojibwe maashkinoozhe (literally “ugly pike”) or Algonquin maskinunga. Not related to German Muskel (“muscle”) or Lunge (“lung”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (2,869)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MUSKELLUNGE · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MUSKELLUNGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 173, 9 November 2026.
Built from these letters
MUSKELLUNGE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EEGKLLMNSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U, E and L appear more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found MUSKELLUNGE?
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 173 - and most players walked straight past it.
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