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SCRIBE
Definition of SCRIBE
noun
Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist. A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English scribe, from Old French scribe (“scribe”), from Late Latin usage of scrība (“secretary”) (used in the Vulgate Bible translation to render Ancient Greek γραμματεύς (grammateús, “scribe, secretary”), which had been used in its turn to render the Hebrew סופר (“writer, scholar”)) from scrībere (“to write, draw, draw up, draft (a paper), enlist, enroll, levy; orig. to scratch”), probably akin to scrobs (“a ditch, trench, grave”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
17th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.7%
of traced words share this origin (558)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SCRIBE · 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.
SCRIBE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 87 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SCRIBE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BCEIRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SCRIBE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found SCRIBE?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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