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MARSUPIALS
Definition of MARSUPIALS
noun
plural of marsupial
noun
A mammal of the infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears the young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.
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Word DNA
MARSUPIALS inherits its ancestry from its root, MARSUPIAL.
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.3%
of traced words share this origin (10,543)
branch · 12.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MARSUPIAL · 1 relative 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.
MARSUPIALS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MARSUPIALS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAILMPRSSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and S appear more than once.
Words that start MARSUP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MARSUPIALS?
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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.
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