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RETAILOR
Definition of RETAILOR
noun
Obsolete spelling of retailer.
RETAILER
noun
A retail sales company or salesman.
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Word DNA
RETAILOR inherits its ancestry from its root, RETAIL.
Line of descent
- Old French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,408)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RETAIL · 6 relatives 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.
RETAILOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
Built from these letters
RETAILOR starts with R and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEILORRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start RETAIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RETAILOR?
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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.
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