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ASKANCE
Definition of ASKANCE
adverb
Of a glance or look: with disapproval, skepticism, or suspicion.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unknown. Possibly from Middle English askances (“as if”), or from Old French a escone (“hidden”) or Italian a scancio (“obliquely”). Compare asquint, Middle English askoyn (“at a slant, askance”), Dutch schuin, schuins (“sideways”), schuiven (“to shove”), schuinte (“slope”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.7%
of traced words share this origin (1,366)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ASKANCE · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ASKANCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 243 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ASKANCE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACEKNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start ASKANC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found ASKANCE?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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