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MARESCHAL
Definition of MARESCHAL
noun
An officer of an household.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
A variant of marshal remodelled on its etymon, Old French mareschal.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,408)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MARESCHAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 101, 29 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 101, 29 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MARESCHAL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AACEHLMRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start MARESC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MARESCHAL?
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 101 - and most players walked straight past it.
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