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RECREANT
Definition of RECREANT
adjective
Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English recreaunt, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French recreant (“defeated”), from recroire (“to yield in a trial by combat, surrender allegiance”). Compare miscreant.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (873)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RECREANT · 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.
RECREANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.
Built from these letters
RECREANT starts with R and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACEENRRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and E appear more than once.
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 RECREA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RECREANT?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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