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MORTUARY
Definition of MORTUARY
adjective
Of or relating to death or a funeral; funereal.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English mortuary, from Anglo-Norman mortuarie (“gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner”), from Medieval Latin mortuārium (“receptacle for the dead; mortuary”), neuter form of mortuārius (“of or pertaining to the dead”), from Latin mortuus, perfect passive participle of morior (“to die”).
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.
MORTUARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MORTUARY starts with M and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AMORRTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start MORTUA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MORTUARY?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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