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CHOIRMASTER
Definition of CHOIRMASTER
noun
The musical director of a choir, who conducts performances and supervises rehearsal.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From choir + master, a calque of German Chormeister. Piecewise doublet of chorusmaster.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- German
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (899)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CHOIRMASTER · 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.
CHOIRMASTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHOIRMASTER starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACEHIMORRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start CHOIRMA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CHOIRMASTER?
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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.
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