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QUALIFICATOR

12 letters

Definition of QUALIFICATOR

noun

An officer who examines and prepares causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

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.

QUALIFICATOR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 172
Its one board, across 172 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
164
First board
8
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

splox5

on Day 164, 31 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

QUALIFICATOR
12
Letters
6
Vowels
6
Consonants
10
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

QUALIFICATOR starts with Q and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AACFIILOQRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and I appear more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start QUALIFIC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

QUALIFICATIONQUALIFICATORYQUALIFICATIONS

Could you have found QUALIFICATOR?

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 164 - and most players walked straight past it.

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