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PANTALOON
Definition of PANTALOON
noun
An aging buffoon.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from French pantalon, from Italian Pantalone (a character in Commedia dell'arte), from Spanish Pantaleon (surname). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “contradicts pantalon#French”)
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.6%
of traced words share this origin (425)
branch · 15.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PANTALOON · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PANTALOON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 132, 29 September 2026.
Built from these letters
PANTALOON starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AALNNOOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, N and O appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start PANTAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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