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COMPUTER
Definition of COMPUTER
noun
A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.
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Where it comes from
From compute + -er. Doublet of cantore, counter, and kontor. The sense referring to people first appears c. 1613 in the works of the poet Richard Brathwait. The sense referring to a machine first appears c. 1897 in the magazine Engineering.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COMPUTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 97 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
COMPUTER starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CEMOPRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COMPUT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found COMPUTER?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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