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JAVELIN
Definition of JAVELIN
noun
A light spear thrown with the hand and used as a weapon.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English chafeveleyn, gavelong, from Old French javelline, diminutive of javelot, diminutive of *javel, from Vulgar Latin *gabalus, from Gaulish gabulum (compare Old Irish gabul (“fork”), Welsh gafl), from Proto-Celtic *gablā (“fork, forked branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-. The Old French term was also borrowed into Middle Low German as gaveline, and into Middle High German as gabilot. Cognate with gavelock, gaffle.
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.
JAVELIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 107 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
JAVELIN starts with J and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEIJLNV - 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 start JAVELI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found JAVELIN?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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