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PAVANE
Definition of PAVANE
noun
A musical style characteristic of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
PAVANE carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A slow, stately court dance of the 1500s and 1600s, usually in duple meter.
noun
The music for this dance.
noun
A moderately slow, courtly processional dance in duple time/meter.
noun
music composed for dancing the pavane
Where it comes from
From French pavane, from dialectal Italian pavana, contraction of the older padovana, feminine of padovano, meaning from the city of Padua (Italian Padova, dialectal form Pava).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.9%
of traced words share this origin (564)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PAVANE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 94 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PAVANE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAENPV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found PAVANE?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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