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PREDATOR
Definition of PREDATOR
noun
Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other nonplant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin praedātor, from praedor (“loot, pillage”), from praeda (“booty, spoils, prey”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,888)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PREDATOR · 1 relative 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.
PREDATOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 152, 19 October 2026.
Built from these letters
PREDATOR starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ADEOPRRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PREDAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PREDATOR?
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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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