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QUINTE
Definition of QUINTE
noun
The fifth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at knee height.
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Where it comes from
From French.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,155)
branch · 15.5% 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.
QUINTE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 40, 29 June 2026.
Built from these letters
QUINTE starts with Q and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EINQTU - 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 QUINTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found QUINTE?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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