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MUTCHED

/mʌt͡ʃ/7 letters

Definition of MUTCHED

Wiktionary has no entry for MUTCHED itself. This is its base word, MUTCH.

noun

A nightcap (hat worn to bed).

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Where it comes from

The origin recorded for MUTCH.

From Middle Dutch mutse, from amutse, from Late Latin almucia (“almuce”). Doublet of almuce.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

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Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 119
Its 2 boards, across 119 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
72
First board
103
Latest board
31
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First found by a player on Day 103, 31 August 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start MUTCHE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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