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COURANTE

/kuːˈɹɑnt/8 letters

Definition of COURANTE

noun

Any of a family of old French dances from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era in triple metre.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Middle French courante.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle French

Deepest traced root

13th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

1.1%

of traced words share this origin (332)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllables

Every Middle French 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.

COURANTE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 145
Its 12 boards, across 145 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
49
First board
143
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 49, 8 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

teg

on Day 49, 8 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

COURANTE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

COURANTE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACENORTU - 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 COURAN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found COURANTE?

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 49 - and most players walked straight past it.

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