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CREATOR
Definition of CREATOR
noun
Something or someone which creates or makes something.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English creatour, from Old French creator, creatur, creatour, from Latin creātor, agent noun from perfect passive participle creātus (“created”), from verb creō (“to create”) + agent suffix -or. Mostly displaced native Old English wyrhta (modern English wright).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.1%
of traced words share this origin (1,219)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CREATOR · 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.
CREATOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 3, 24 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 3, 24 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CREATOR starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACEORRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CREATO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 3
Could you have found CREATOR?
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 3 - and most players walked straight past it.
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