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PROTECTIONIST
Definition of PROTECTIONIST
adjective
Of or pertaining to protectionism, or an advocate thereof.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French protectionniste, equivalent to protection + -ist.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PROTECTIONIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PROTECTIONIST starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEIINOOPRSTTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O, T and I appear more than once.
Words that start PROTECTIO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PROTECTIONIST?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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