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PEDANT
Definition of PEDANT
noun
A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
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Where it comes from
From Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante (“a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”), associated with unrelated Italian pedagogo (“teacher, pedagogue”). Compare French pédant.
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.
PEDANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 60 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PEDANT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ADENPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PEDANT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found PEDANT?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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