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QUONDAM
Definition of QUONDAM
adjective
Former; once; at one time.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
QUONDAM carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
That once was; former.
Having been formerly; former: as, one's quondam friend; a quondam schoolmaster.
noun
A person formerly in an office; a person ejected from an office or a position.
adjective
Having been formerly; former; sometime.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin quondam. Compare whilom.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,981)
branch · 30.7% 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.
QUONDAM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 87 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 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 40, 29 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUONDAM starts with Q and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read ADMNOQU - 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 QUONDAM. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found QUONDAM?
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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