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MUSKETOON
Definition of MUSKETOON
noun
A firearm, similar to a musket but with a shorter barrel and a large bore.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From musket + -oon, after French mousqueton. Compare Italian moschettone.
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.
MUSKETOON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 67, 26 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MUSKETOON starts with M and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EKMNOOSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start MUSKET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MUSKETOON?
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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.
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