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TUTOR

/ˈtjuːtəː/5 letters

Definition of TUTOR

noun

One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur (French tuteur), from Latin tūtor (“a watcher, protector, guardian”), from tueor (“protect”); see tuition.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

TUTOR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its 2 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
106
First board
117
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 106, 3 September 2026.

Built from these letters

TUTOR
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start TUTOR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TUTORSTUTOREDTUTORAGETUTORESSTUTORIALTUTORINGTUTORISETUTORISMTUTORIZETUTORAGESTUTORIALSTUTORINGS

Could you have found TUTOR?

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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.

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