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COLORISER

9 letters

Definition of COLORISER

noun

Non-Oxford British English spelling of colorizer.

COLORIZER

noun

A device or system that colorizes black and white film or images.

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Word DNA

COLORISER inherits its ancestry from its root, COLOR.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Anglo-Norman
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (25,613)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, COLOR · 52 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old English.

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

COLORISER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its one board, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
153
First board
15
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.

First ever to find it

derangedlemur

on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

COLORISER
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

COLORISER starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CEILOORRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and R appear more than once.

Words that start COLORI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found COLORISER?

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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.

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