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AUTHENTICATOR
Definition of AUTHENTICATOR
noun
One who, or something which, authenticates, as: An app that uses applied cryptography to prove someone's identity to a network connection. A feature that shows something to be authentic. A person employed to check the accuracy and realism of a script.
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Where it comes from
From authenticate + -or.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, AUTHENTICATOR · 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.
AUTHENTICATOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First found by a player on Day 148, 15 October 2026.
Built from these letters
AUTHENTICATOR starts with A and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AACEHINORTTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and T appear more than once.
Words that start AUTHENTIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found AUTHENTICATOR?
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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.
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