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USAGER
Definition of USAGER
noun
One who has the use of anything held in trust for another.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
French usager.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,177)
branch · 15.5% 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.
USAGER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 147, 14 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
USAGER starts with U and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEGRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start USAGER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found USAGER?
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 147 - and most players walked straight past it.
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