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BARBER
Definition of BARBER
noun
A person whose profession is cutting the hair and beards of usually male customers.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,664)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BARB · 6 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.
BARBER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First found by a player on Day 151, 18 October 2026.
Built from these letters
BARBER starts with B and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ABBERR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B and R appear more than once.
Words that start BARBER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BARBER?
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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.
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