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ELECTOR
Definition of ELECTOR
noun
A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter. A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament. A member of an electoral college; specifically an official selected by a state as a member of the Electoral College to elect the president and vice president of the United States. Alternative letter-case form of Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”).
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Where it comes from
From Middle English electour (“one with a right to vote in electing some office, elector”), borrowed from Late Latin ēlēctor (“chooser, selector; voter, elector”), from Latin ēligere (“to elect”) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns), equivalent to elect + -or. Ēligere is the present active infinitive of ēligō (“to extract, pluck or root out; (figurative) to choose, elect, pick out”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + legō (“to appoint, choose, select”) (from Proto-Italic *legō (“to gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”)).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,636)
How it is built
Same root, ELECTOR · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ELECTOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ELECTOR starts with E and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CEELORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ELECTO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found ELECTOR?
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