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AROINT
Definition of AROINT
verb
avaunt; begone; go away; leave!
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Uncertain, and subject to various attempts to connect it to multiple Germanic and Romance etymons; first attested in the First Folio, and sometimes posited to be an error for anoint, referring to a witch’s supposed flight-facilitating ointment, and thus being a commandment for her to anele herself and fly away; also said to be taken from the phrase rowan tree, thought to dispel witches.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- German
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (889)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, AROINT · 2 relatives 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.
AROINT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 60, 19 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 60, 19 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AROINT starts with A and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AINORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 AROINT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 60
Could you have found AROINT?
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 60 - and most players walked straight past it.
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