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MUSLIN
Definition of MUSLIN
noun
Any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French mousseline, from Italian mussolina, from Mussolo (“Mosul”), that is Mosul in northern Iraq (compare 1875 Knight, Edward H., Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, V2 p1502: "Muslins are so called from Moussol in India."). Doublet of mousseline.
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.
MUSLIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 63 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 22, 11 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MUSLIN starts with M and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ILMNSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MUSLIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found MUSLIN?
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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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