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MARAUD
Definition of MARAUD
verb
To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder; to loiter.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French marauder, derivative of maraud (“rogue, vagabond”), from Middle French maraud (“rascal”), from Old French *marault (“beggar, vagabond”), from marir, marrir (“to trouble, stray, lose ones way, be lost”), from Frankish *marʀijan (“to neglect, hinder”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to neglect, hinder, spoil”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to trouble, confuse, ignore, forget”), + Old French suffix -ault, -aud. Cognate with Old High German marrjan, marren (“to obstruct, hinder”), Old Saxon merrian (“to hinder, waste”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to offend”). Related to mar.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,554)
How it is built
Same root, MARAUD · 5 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MARAUD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 72 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 21, 10 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MARAUD starts with M and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AADMRU - 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 MARAUD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found MARAUD?
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