MARE

Where it comes from

From Middle English mare, meare, meir, mer, mere, meyre, mure, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-West Germanic *marhijā, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”), from *marhaz (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *márkos (“horse”). Cognate with Scots mere (“mare”), Saterland Frisian Märe (“mare”), West Frisian merje (“mare”), Dutch merrie (“mare”), German Mähre (“female horse”), Danish mær (“old mare”), Faroese mer (“mare”), Icelandic meri (“mare”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk merr (“mare”), Swedish mæhr, mær, mähr, märr (“mare”); also Breton marc'h (“horse”), Cornish margh (“horse”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic marc (“horse”), Welsh march (“horse”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

MARE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 114, 11 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

Built from these letters

MARE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEMR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

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 MARE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Also seen on Day 28