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APIARIST

/ˈeɪpi.əɹɪst/8 letters

Definition of APIARIST

noun

beekeeper

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Other senses

APIARIST carries 4 further meanings.

  1. noun

    One who keeps bees, specifically one who cares for and raises bees for commercial or agricultural purposes.

  2. noun

    One who keeps an apiary; one who keeps bees, or studies the nature of bees; a bee-keeper or bee-master.

  3. noun

    One who keeps an apiary.

  4. noun

    a farmer who keeps bees for their honey

Where it comes from

From apiary + -ist.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun4 syllablescompound-ist

Same root, APIARY · 2 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

APIARIST in a sentence

“Parivartan Sharma/Reuters An apiarist collected honey from a beehive in Madalpur village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Wednesday.”

India in Pictures, 2011

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

APIARIST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 40 boards so far. 153 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 165
Its 40 boards, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
40
Boards found on
25
First board
163
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.

Built from these letters

APIARIST
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

APIARIST starts with A and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AAIIPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and I appear more than once.

Words that start APIARI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

from The Century Dictionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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