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GAUNTLET
Definition of GAUNTLET
noun
Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English gauntelett, gantlett, a borrowing from Old French gantelet (“gauntlet worn by a knight in armor, a token of one's personality or person, and symbolizing a challenge”), diminutive of gant (“glove”), a borrowing from Frankish *want (“glove; mitten”) and reinforced by Medieval Latin wantus (“glove”) itself borrowed from the former, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove; mitten”). Cognate with Dutch want (“mitten; shroud”), German Low German Want (“shroud”), Danish vante (“mitten”), Swedish vante (“glove; mitten”), Faroese vøttur (“glove; mitten”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,861)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GAUNTLET · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GAUNTLET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 106, 3 September 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
GAUNTLET starts with G and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEGLNTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start GAUNTL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GAUNTLET?
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