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MAINPERNORS
Definition of MAINPERNORS
noun
plural of mainpernor
noun
In England in the Middle Ages, a surety (kind of guarantor) a guarantor that a ship would dock under the old writ of mainprise, a guarantor for a prisoner's appearance in court.
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Word DNA
MAINPERNORS inherits its ancestry from its root, MAINPERNOR.
Line of descent
- Anglo-Norman
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
26th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.3%
of traced words share this origin (294)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MAINPERNOR · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names French.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MAINPERNORS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MAINPERNORS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEIMNNOPRRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and R appear more than once.
Could you have found MAINPERNORS?
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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.
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