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ARBITRAGE
Definition of ARBITRAGE
noun
A market activity in which a security, commodity, currency or other tradable item is bought in one market and sold simultaneously in another, in order to profit from price differences between the markets.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
An unadapted borrowing from French arbitrage, from arbitrer (“to arbitrate”); see arbitrate.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,185)
branch · 15.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ARBITRAGE · 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.
ARBITRAGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ARBITRAGE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AABEGIRRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and R appear more than once.
Words that start ARBITR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ARBITRAGE?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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