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FISHMARKET

10 letters

Definition of FISHMARKET

noun

A market where fish is sold.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English fisshmarket; equivalent to fish + market.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,283)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

FISHMARKET in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its 2 boards, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
148
First board
173
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 173, 9 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

mads16

on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FISHMARKET
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
10
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FISHMARKET starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEFHIKMRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start FISHMA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FISHMARKET?

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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.

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