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STARTER

/ˈstɑː.tə(ɹ)/7 letters

Definition of STARTER

noun

Someone who starts, or who starts something. The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag. A starting pitcher. A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.

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Where it comes from

From start + -er.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

STARTER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its one board, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
90
First board
12
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

bigdscPATRON

on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

STARTER
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

STARTER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AERRSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and R appear more than once.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

RATTERSRESTART

Words that start STARTE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

STARTEDSTARTERS

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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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.

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