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MALINGERS
Definition of MALINGERS
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of malinger
verb
To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
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Another sense
MALINGERS carries a second meaning.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malinger.
Word DNA
MALINGERS inherits its ancestry from its root, MALINGER.
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,061)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MALINGER · 3 relatives in the game
MALINGERS in a sentence
“But, within limits, they may loaf and malinger, and, as scabs, are exceeded by the machine, which never loafs or malingers, and which is the ideally perfect scab.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MALINGERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 74 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MALINGERS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEGILMNRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MALING
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found MALINGERS?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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