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MARKET
Definition of MARKET
noun
A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); all ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“to trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Doublet of mart. Cognate with West Frisian merk (“market”), Dutch markt, German Markt, Danish and Norwegian marked (“market”), Faroese and Icelandic markaður (“market”), Swedish marknad (“market”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MARKET in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 51 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 103 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
MARKET starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEKMRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MARKET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 3
Could you have found MARKET?
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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