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GENITOR
Definition of GENITOR
noun
a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English genitour, from Old French genitor, geneteur, from Latin genitor, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tōr; the Latin is also equivalent to genō + -tor.
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.
GENITOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 87, 15 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GENITOR starts with G and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EGINORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GENITO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GENITOR?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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