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MARGINAL
Definition of MARGINAL
adjective
Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
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Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis, equivalent to margin + -al.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,487)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MARGINAL · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MARGINAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 117 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
MARGINAL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAGILMNR - 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 MARGIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found MARGINAL?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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