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MINISTER
Definition of MINISTER
noun
A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English ministre, from Old French ministre, from Latin minister (“an attendant, servant, assistant, a priest's assistant or other under official”), from minor (“less”) + -ter; see minor. Doublet of Minorite.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,723)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MINISTER · 2 relatives 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.
MINISTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 44, 3 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MINISTER starts with M and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EIIMNRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MINIST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 44
Could you have found MINISTER?
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 44 - and most players walked straight past it.
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