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JOUSTER
Definition of JOUSTER
noun
A person who jousts.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
JOUSTER carries 2 further meanings.
noun
One who jousts or tilts.
noun
A horse used for jousting
Where it comes from
From joust + -er.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, JOUST · 3 relatives in the game
JOUSTER in a sentence
“There was a time, not long ago, when Jaime was as good a jouster as any in the Seven Kingdoms, with a good chance to win any tourney that he entered.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
JOUSTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 253 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
JOUSTER starts with J and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EJORSTU - 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 11
Could you have found JOUSTER?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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