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MERCANTILE
Definition of MERCANTILE
adjective
Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French mercantile, from Italian mercantile, from mercante (“merchant”), from Latin mercāns (“trading”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,817)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MERCANTILE · 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.
MERCANTILE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 47 boards so far. 126 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MERCANTILE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEEILMNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start MERCAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found MERCANTILE?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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