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THURIFERS

9 letters

Definition of THURIFERS

noun

plural of thurifer

THURIFER

noun

An acolyte who carries a thurible.

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Word DNA

THURIFERS inherits its ancestry from its root, THURIFER.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (10,004)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-fer

Same root, THURIFER · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin word → · 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.

THURIFERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 153
Its 3 boards, across 153 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
139
First board
141
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

teg

on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

THURIFERS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start THURIF

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found THURIFERS?

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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