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SECUROCRAT
Definition of SECUROCRAT
noun
Any of the members of the police and security service that dominated the South African government in the 1980s.
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Where it comes from
From security + -crat (perhaps to rhyme with bureaucrat).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SECUROCRAT · 1 relative 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.
SECUROCRAT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 139, 6 October 2026.
Built from these letters
SECUROCRAT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACCEORRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C and R appear more than once.
Could you have found SECUROCRAT?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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