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JOVIALITY

/d͡ʒoʊviˈælɪti/9 letters

Definition of JOVIALITY

noun

The state of being jovial; jollity or conviviality.

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Other senses

JOVIALITY carries 4 further meanings.

  1. noun

    The state or quality of being jovial; jovial conduct or amusement; merriment; jollity; festivity.

  2. noun

    Synonyms Joy, Glee, etc. (see hilarity); gaiety, Jollity, jocularity, sportiveness.

  3. noun

    The quality or state of being jovial.

  4. noun

    feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French jovialité.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

JOVIALITY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 323 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 11 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
5
First board
100
Latest board
28
Longest gap, days

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

travelgirl

on Day 5, 26 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

JOVIALITY
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

JOVIALITY starts with J and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AIIJLOTVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that mean much the same

Near-synonyms of JOVIALITY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.

AMUSEMENTCHEERCONVIVIALITYFESTIVITYFRIVOLITYFUNGAIETYGLEE

Words that start JOVIAL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

JOVIALJOVIALLYJOVIALTYJOVIALNESSJOVIALTIESJOVIALITIES

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from The Century Dictionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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