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PURSERS
Definition of PURSERS
noun
plural of purser
noun
The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft.
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Word DNA
PURSERS inherits its ancestry from its root, PURSE.
Line of descent
7 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,280)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PURSE · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old French.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PURSERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PURSERS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EPRRSSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and S appear more than once.
Words that start PURSER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PURSERS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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