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BUREAUCRAT
Definition of BUREAUCRAT
noun
An official who is part of a bureaucracy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French bureaucrate, equivalent to bureau + -crat.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,108)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BUREAUCRAT · 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.
BUREAUCRAT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 138, 5 October 2026.
Built from these letters
BUREAUCRAT starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AABCERRTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U, R and A appear more than once.
Words that start BUREAU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BUREAUCRAT?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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