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AUTHORIZE
Definition of AUTHORIZE
verb
To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English auctorisen, from Old French auctorisier, from Medieval Latin auctōrizāre, from Latin auctor. See author about the orthography with ⟨h⟩. Doublet of octroy.
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 (25,170)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, AUTHORIZE · 4 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.
AUTHORIZE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 4, 25 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 4, 25 May 2026.
Built from these letters
AUTHORIZE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEHIORTUZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start AUTHOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 4
Could you have found AUTHORIZE?
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 4 - and most players walked straight past it.
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