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WAITRON
Definition of WAITRON
noun
A waiter or waitress.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Coined as a gender-neutral substitute for waiter and waitress, this is one of the few words with the gender-neutral suffix -ron to have seen much use, probably re-inforced by rhyming with patron. (Some references instead analyse it as using the same "machinelike" suffix -tron as waitron (“mechanical waiter”), but more likely it uses -ron like laundron and like waiter and waitress use -er/-ress not *-ter/*-tress.)
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WAITRON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
WAITRON starts with W and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AINORTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found WAITRON?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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