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QUAINT
Definition of QUAINT
adjective
Of a person: cunning, crafty.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English queynte, quoynte, from Anglo-Norman cointe, queinte and Old French cointe (“pretty, clever, knowing”), from Latin cognitus, past participle of cognōscō (“to know”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,711)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, QUAINT · 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.
QUAINT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 218 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
QUAINT starts with Q and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AINQTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
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 QUAINT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found QUAINT?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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