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INVOCATOR

/ˈɪnvəˌkeɪtəɹ/9 letters

Definition of INVOCATOR

noun

One who invocates the spirits of the dead.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Late Latin invocātor. By surface analysis, invocate + -or.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,696)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun4 syllablescompound-or

Same root, INVOCATOR · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

INVOCATOR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 11 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
30
First board
148
Latest board
33
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 63, 22 July 2026.

Built from these letters

INVOCATOR
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

INVOCATOR starts with I and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACINOORTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start INVOCA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

INVOCANTINVOCATEINVOCABLEINVOCATEDINVOCATESINVOCATINGINVOCATIONINVOCATIVEINVOCATORSINVOCATORYINVOCATIONSINVOCATIONAL

Could you have found INVOCATOR?

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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.

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