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ROMANCER
Definition of ROMANCER
noun
One who romances another; one who attempt to win another's affections via romance.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Old French romanceour. By surface analysis, romance + -er.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,408)
branch · 12.8% 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.
ROMANCER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 140, 7 October 2026.
Built from these letters
ROMANCER starts with R and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACEMNORR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start ROMANC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ROMANCER?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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