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MARITAL

/ˈmæɹɪtəl/7 letters

Definition of MARITAL

adjective

Pertaining to marriage.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Middle French marital, and its source, Latin marītālis, from marītus (“husband”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33%

of traced words share this origin (9,478)

Italic

branch · 33% of traced words

How it is built

adjective3 syllables

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

MARITAL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 212 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 142
Its 22 boards, across 142 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
22
Boards found on
28
First board
141
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.

Built from these letters

MARITAL
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MARITAL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAILMRT - 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 MARITA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MARITAL?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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