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MARTS

/mɑɹts/5 letters

Definition of MARTS

noun

plural of mart

MART

noun

A shop, a store, a market.

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Word DNA

MARTS inherits its ancestry from its root, MART.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle Dutch
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,860)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Same root, MART · 3 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

MARTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 152
Its 4 boards, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
7
First board
144
Latest board
76
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

lickorice

on Day 83, 11 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MARTS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MARTS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AMRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found MARTS?

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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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