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MARINATES
Definition of MARINATES
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of marinate
verb
To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.
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Word DNA
MARINATES inherits its ancestry from its root, MARINATE.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,616)
How it is built
Same root, MARINATE · 2 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MARINATES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 129, 26 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MARINATES starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAEIMNRST - 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 MARINA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found MARINATES?
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