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MARABOUTS
Definition of MARABOUTS
noun
plural of marabout
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Word DNA
MARABOUTS inherits its ancestry from its root, MARABOUT.
Line of descent
- Arabic
- Portuguese
- French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,132)
branch · 2.1% 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.
MARABOUTS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 70, 29 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 77, 5 August 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
MARABOUTS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AABMORSTU - 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.
Could you have found MARABOUTS?
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 70 - and most players walked straight past it.
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