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QUOIT
Definition of QUOIT
noun
A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
QUOIT carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A game in which players toss rings of metal, rope, or rubber at a stake, trying to get each ring to land with the stake through its center or close to the stake.
noun
One of the rings used in this game.
To throw as a quoit; throw.
To throw quoits; play at quoits.
Where it comes from
From Middle English coyte (“flat stone”), from Old French coite, from Latin culcita. Doublet of quilt.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 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, QUOIT · 4 relatives in the game
QUOIT in a sentence
“This was why: Before Sabol left, the two played a backyard game called quoit, similar to horseshoes.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
QUOIT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 112 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 38, 27 June 2026.
Built from these letters
QUOIT starts with Q and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read IOQTU - 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.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of QUOIT. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start QUOIT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found QUOIT?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
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