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ANTEROOM
Definition of ANTEROOM
noun
A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From ante- + room, as a calque of French antichambre or its model Italian anticamera.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.9%
of traced words share this origin (546)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ANTEROOM · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ANTEROOM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 37, 26 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ANTEROOM starts with A and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AEMNOORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start ANTERO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 37
Could you have found ANTEROOM?
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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.
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