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DIRECTORY
Definition of DIRECTORY
noun
A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English directorie, dyrectorye, from Medieval Latin dīrēctōrium. By surface analysis, direct + -ory. Doublet of directorium. The political sense is a semantic loan from French directoire.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,450)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names French.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DIRECTORY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DIRECTORY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CDEIORRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start DIRECT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DIRECTORY?
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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.
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