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MARABOUT
Definition of MARABOUT
noun
A Muslim holy man or mystic, especially in parts of North Africa.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French marabout, from Portuguese maraboto, marabuto, from Moroccan Arabic مْرَابِط (mrabeṭ) (standard Arabic مُرَابِط (murābiṭ, “soldier stationed in fortified outpost”)).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Arabic
- Portuguese
- French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
12th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.3%
of traced words share this origin (380)
branch · 1.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MARABOUT · 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.
MARABOUT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 48, 7 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 99, 27 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MARABOUT starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AABMORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
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 MARABO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 48
Could you have found MARABOUT?
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 48 - and most players walked straight past it.
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