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COLLECTOR
Definition of COLLECTOR
noun
A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,643)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COLLECTOR · 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.
COLLECTOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COLLECTOR starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CCELLOORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C, O and L appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start COLLEC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COLLECTOR?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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