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MARINADE
Definition of MARINADE
noun
A seasoned, often acidic liquid mixture in which food is marinated, or soaked, usually to flavor and prepare it for cooking.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French marinade. By surface analysis, marine + -ade.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,087)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MARINADE · 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.
MARINADE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 8, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MARINADE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AADEIMNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start MARINA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found MARINADE?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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