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COLLEAGUE
Definition of COLLEAGUE
noun
A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French collegue, from Latin collēga (“a partner in office”), from com- (“with”) + lēgō (“to send on an embassy”), from lēx (“law”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,371)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COLLEAGUE · 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.
COLLEAGUE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COLLEAGUE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEEGLLOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L and E appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start COLLEA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COLLEAGUE?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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