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JAUNTY
Definition of JAUNTY
adjective
Airy; showy; finical.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Formerly spelt janty, from French gentil. See gentle, and compare genty. Doublet of genteel, gentile, and gentle.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,087)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, JAUNTY · 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.
JAUNTY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 318 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 18, 7 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 18, 7 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
JAUNTY starts with J and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AJNTUY - 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.
Also seen on Day 18
Could you have found JAUNTY?
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 18 - and most players walked straight past it.
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