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MALARIOUS
Definition of MALARIOUS
adjective
With malaria; where people may catch malaria.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From malaria + -ous.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, MALARIA · 3 relatives 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.
MALARIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 83, 11 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 171, 7 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 83, 11 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MALARIOUS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAILMORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start MALARI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MALARIOUS?
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 83 - and most players walked straight past it.
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