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LAMBENT
Definition of LAMBENT
adjective
Brushing or flickering gently over a surface.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
LAMBENT carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Flickering lightly.
“lambent firelight.”
adjective
Having a gentle glow; luminous: synonym: bright.
adjective
Light or brilliant.
“lambent wit.”
Licking.
Where it comes from
From Latin lambēns, present participle of lambō (“lick”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,860)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LAMBENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 51 boards so far. 122 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 20, 9 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LAMBENT starts with L and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABELMNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of LAMBENT. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start LAMBEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found LAMBENT?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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