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PANT
Definition of PANT
noun
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank. Possibly from Old French pantoyer, a byform or of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless”) (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pantasiō (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasióō, “to be subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).
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.
PANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
PANT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ANPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PANT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found PANT?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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