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MARAUDING

9 letters

Definition of MARAUDING

verb

present participle and gerund of maraud

MARAUD

verb

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

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Word DNA

MARAUDING 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

14.3%

of traced words share this origin (11,343)

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.

MARAUDING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 86 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 160
Its 38 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
38
Boards found on
24
First board
154
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.

Built from these letters

MARAUDING
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

MARAUDING starts with M and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AADGIMNRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start MARAUD

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MARAUDING?

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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