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MARK
Definition of MARK
noun
Boundary, land within a boundary. A boundary; a border or frontier. A boundary-post or fence. A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers. The line indicating an athlete's starting-point. A type of small region or principality. A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English mark, merk, merke, from Old English mearc (“mark, sign, line of division; standard; boundary, limit, term, border; defined area, district, province”), from Proto-West Germanic *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary, border”). Compare march.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (12,251)
How it is built
Same root, MARK · 13 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.
MARK in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 3, 24 May 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 174 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
MARK starts with M and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read AKMR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MARK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 3
Could you have found MARK?
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 3 - and most players walked straight past it.
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