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MEDIANT
Definition of MEDIANT
noun
The third degree of the diatonic scale.
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Where it comes from
From Italian mediante, from Latin mediānt- (“being in the middle”), present active participle of mediō (“to be in the middle”), from medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðios, from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“between”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,623)
How it is built
Same root, MEDIANT · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MEDIANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 45, 4 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 45, 4 July 2026.
Built from these letters
MEDIANT starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ADEIMNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MEDIAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 45
Could you have found MEDIANT?
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 45 - and most players walked straight past it.
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