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QUARTAN
Definition of QUARTAN
noun
A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Anglo-Norman quartaine, Old French quartaine, from Latin quartāna (short for febris quartana), noun use of feminine form of quartānus (“recurring every four days”), from quartus (“fourth”).
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.
QUARTAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 81, 9 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 81, 9 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUARTAN starts with Q and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AANQRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start QUARTA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found QUARTAN?
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 81 - and most players walked straight past it.
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