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WORKER
Definition of WORKER
noun
One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English worchere, werkere, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the older term wright, from Old English wyrhta.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,223)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WORK · 5 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WORKER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 139, 6 October 2026.
Built from these letters
WORKER starts with W and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EKORRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R 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 WORKER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WORKER?
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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