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QUAGMIRES
Definition of QUAGMIRES
noun
plural of quagmire
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Another sense
QUAGMIRES carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of quagmire.
Word DNA
QUAGMIRES inherits its ancestry from its root, QUAGMIRE.
How it is built
Same root, QUAGMIRE · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Polish, Proto-Slavic, Russian.
QUAGMIRES in a sentence
“To catch Bacevich discussing how the U.S. military became specialists in quagmires in a Timothy MacBain TomCast audio interview click here or, to download it to your iPod, here.”
Andrew Bacevich: The Long War: Year Ten Lost in the Desert with the GPS on the Fritz, 2010
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
QUAGMIRES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 506 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 12, 1 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUAGMIRES starts with Q and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEGIMQRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start QUAGMI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found QUAGMIRES?
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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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