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PEDANTRY
Definition of PEDANTRY
noun
An excessive attention to detail or rules. An instance of such behaviour.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Italian pedanteria, equivalent to pedant + -ry. Compare also French pédanterie.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Italian
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.7%
of traced words share this origin (1,301)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PEDANTRY · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names French.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PEDANTRY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 63 boards so far. 239 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PEDANTRY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ADENPRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PEDANT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found PEDANTRY?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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