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MARSHALING
Definition of MARSHALING
verb
present participle and gerund of marshal
noun
A high-ranking officer in the household of a medieval prince or lord, who was originally in charge of the cavalry and later the military forces in general.
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Word DNA
MARSHALING inherits its ancestry from its root, MARSHAL.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (927)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MARSHAL · 2 relatives 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.
MARSHALING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 80, 8 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 92, 20 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MARSHALING starts with M and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AAGHILMNRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start MARSHA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MARSHALING?
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 80 - and most players walked straight past it.
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