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MUSTERED

8 letters

Definition of MUSTERED

verb

simple past and past participle of muster

MUSTER

noun

A gathering. An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things. An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service. The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army. A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc.

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Word DNA

MUSTERED inherits its ancestry from its root, MUST.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,861)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, MUST · 7 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, Swedish.

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

MUSTERED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 64 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 164
Its 34 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
34
Boards found on
33
First board
164
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 33, 22 June 2026.

Built from these letters

MUSTERED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MUSTERED starts with M and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEMRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start MUSTER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MUSTERED?

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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.

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