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DONZEL
Definition of DONZEL
noun
A young squire or the attendant to a knight; a page
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Old French danzel and Italian donzello, both ultimately from Medieval Latin domicellus (“young nobleman, squire”), a diminutive of Latin dominus (“master, lord”). Compare donzella.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Italian
- Old French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,633)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DONZEL · 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.
DONZEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DONZEL starts with D and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read DELNOZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found DONZEL?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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