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PATRONYM
Definition of PATRONYM
noun
The name of someone's father.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French patronyme, from Ancient Greek πατρώνυμος (patrṓnumos), from πατήρ (patḗr, “father”) + -ώνυμος (-ṓnumos, “having the specified type of name”). By surface analysis, patr- + -onym.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.3%
of traced words share this origin (10,543)
branch · 12.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PATRONYM · 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.
PATRONYM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 172, 8 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PATRONYM starts with P and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AMNOPRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 PATRON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PATRONYM?
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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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