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MYNA
Definition of MYNA
noun
One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Hindi मैना (mainā) / Urdu مینا (mainā), from Sanskrit मदन (madana).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
14th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.9%
of traced words share this origin (247)
branch · 1.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MYNA · 1 relative 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.
MYNA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 71 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 69, 28 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MYNA starts with M and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AMNY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found MYNA?
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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.
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