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LOCATOR

/ləʊˈkeɪtə/7 letters

Definition of LOCATOR

noun

One who, or that which, locates.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Latin locātor. By surface analysis, locate + -or.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

LOCATOR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 112
Its 7 boards, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
7
First board
110
Latest board
35
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Also on

Built from these letters

LOCATOR
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start LOCATO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found LOCATOR?

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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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