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GUIDON
Definition of GUIDON
noun
A small pennant or banner carried by infantry soldiers to direct troop movement.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French guidon, from Italian guidone. Equivalent of guide + on.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.8%
of traced words share this origin (481)
branch · 15.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GUIDON · 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.
GUIDON in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 90 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 70, 29 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GUIDON starts with G and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read DGINOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found GUIDON?
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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.
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