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OPTANT
Definition of OPTANT
noun
A person who lives in a region undergoing a change of sovereignty and thus may choose between retaining their old citizenship or opting for the citizenship of the new sovereignty.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Partly (sense 1) borrowed from German Optant or Danish optant (both attested since 1907), partly from opt + ant.
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.
OPTANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OPTANT starts with O and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ANOPTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start OPTANT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OPTANT?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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