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AVENTAILE

9 letters

Definition of AVENTAILE

noun

Alternative form of aventail.

AVENTAIL

noun

A curtain or flap of mail, fastened to a helmet, or to a coif (hood) of mail, covering the lower face, neck, and shoulders.

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Word DNA

AVENTAILE inherits its ancestry from its root, AVENTAIL.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (25,330)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, AVENTAIL · 3 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

AVENTAILE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its one board, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
160
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

elceeContributor

on Day 160, 27 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AVENTAILE
9
Letters
5
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

AVENTAILE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAEEILNTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and E appear more than once.

Words that start AVENTA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AVENTAILE?

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 160 - and most players walked straight past it.

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