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ESCHEATOR
Definition of ESCHEATOR
noun
A royal officer in medieval and early modern England, responsible for taking escheats from deceased subjects.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English eschetour, itself borrowed from Anglo-Norman eschetour; equivalent to escheat + -or.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Anglo-Norman
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
27th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (103)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ESCHEATOR · 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.
ESCHEATOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 68, 27 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 43 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 68, 27 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ESCHEATOR starts with E and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACEEHORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start ESCHEA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ESCHEATOR?
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 68 - and most players walked straight past it.
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