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JAUNTILY
Definition of JAUNTILY
adverb
In an airy, showy, or affected manner.
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Other senses
JAUNTILY carries 4 further meanings.
Briskly; airily; gaily. Also spelled jantily.
adverb
In a jaunty manner.
adverb
In a dapper or stylish manner.
adverb
In an ostentatiously self-confident manner.
Where it comes from
From jaunty + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
JAUNTILY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 201 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 5, 26 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
JAUNTILY starts with J and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AIJLNTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of JAUNTILY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start JAUNTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 5
Could you have found JAUNTILY?
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 5 - and most players walked straight past it.
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