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TRANSLATOR
Definition of TRANSLATOR
noun
A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly A person or thing that translates various forms of text. Synonym of interpreter, a person or thing that immediately interprets direct speech. A person or thing that expresses an idea or style in a new form or medium. A machine that converts inputs into a pattern of holes on a punch card. A relay station that retransmits incoming television signals after automatically adjusting their frequency to avoid interference. A program that converts commands from one computer language into another.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Directly from Latin trānslātor and French translator, and also from Middle English translatour, from Old French translatour, translateur, etc., from Latin trānslātor, from trānslātus (“carried across”) + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from trānsferō (“carry across”), from trans (“across”) + ferō (“bear, carry”), q.v. Equivalent to translate + -or.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,410)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TRANSLATOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TRANSLATOR starts with T and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AALNORRSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T, R and A appear more than once.
Words that start TRANSL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TRANSLATOR?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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