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NEGOTIATOR

/nɪˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪ.tə/10 letters

Definition of NEGOTIATOR

noun

One who negotiates.

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Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin negōtiātor (“merchant, banker”), equivalent to negotiate + -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 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,276)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun5 syllablescompound-or

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.

NEGOTIATOR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its one board, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
148
First board
25
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 25 days.

First found by a player on Day 148, 15 October 2026.

Built from these letters

NEGOTIATOR
10
Letters
5
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

NEGOTIATOR starts with N and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEGINOORTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and T appear more than once.

Words that start NEGOTI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

NEGOTIANTNEGOTIATENEGOTIABLENEGOTIANTSNEGOTIATEDNEGOTIATESNEGOTIATINGNEGOTIATIONNEGOTIATORSNEGOTIATORYNEGOTIATRIXNEGOTIATIONS

Could you have found NEGOTIATOR?

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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.

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