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MARAUDED

8 letters

Definition of MARAUDED

verb

simple past and past participle of maraud

MARAUD

verb

To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder; to loiter.

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Word DNA

MARAUDED inherits its ancestry from its root, MARAUD.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Frankish
  4. Old French
  5. Middle French
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (12,132)

How it is built

verbcompound-aud-ault

Same root, MARAUD · 5 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

MARAUDED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its one board, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
141
First board
32
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 32 days.

First ever to find it

jthorp

on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MARAUDED
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

MARAUDED starts with M and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AADDEMRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and D appear more than once.

Words that start MARAUD

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MARAUDED?

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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.

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