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GUARDANT
Definition of GUARDANT
adjective
Positioned with the body viewed from the side, but with the head turned toward the viewer.
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Where it comes from
From Old French guardant, present participle of guarder (“to watch”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,361)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GUARDANT · 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.
GUARDANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 99, 27 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 99, 27 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GUARDANT starts with G and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AADGNRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start GUARDA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GUARDANT?
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 99 - and most players walked straight past it.
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