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ANIMATOR
Definition of ANIMATOR
noun
One who creates an animation or cartoon; a cartoonist.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin animātor. By surface analysis, animate + -or. Piecewise doublet of animateur.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,643)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ANIMATOR · 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.
ANIMATOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ANIMATOR starts with A and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AAIMNORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ANIMAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found ANIMATOR?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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