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ANONYM
Definition of ANONYM
noun
An anonymous person.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed, around 1812, from French anonyme (“anonymous person”), from the nominalization of the adjective anonyme (“anonymous”), from Latin anōnymus (adjective), from Ancient Greek ἀνώνυμος (anṓnumos, “without name”, adjective). By surface analysis, an- + -onym.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,660)
branch · 12.6% 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.
ANONYM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ANONYM starts with A and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AMNNOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start ANONYM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ANONYM?
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