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RONDEL
Definition of RONDEL
noun
A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
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Other senses
RONDEL carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A poem similar to a rondeau, having 13 or 14 lines with two rhymes throughout. The first and second lines reappear in the middle and at the end, although sometimes only the first line appears at the end.
noun
A rounded or circular object.
noun
A poem in a fixed form, borrowed from the French, and consisting of thirteen lines on two rimes.
noun
A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
Where it comes from
From Middle English rondel, from Old French rondel, a diminutive of ronde, the feminine of ront, reont (“round (in shape)”), from Latin rotundus (“round, circular; spherical”), related to rota (“wheel”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations 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
Same root, RONDEL · 1 relative in the game
RONDEL in a sentence
“I look up at the sky, and I see the strangest and most ominous sight: the sun is being devoured by a large, dark rondel, like a plate being passed before a candle.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RONDEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 50 boards so far. 87 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 42, 1 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RONDEL starts with R and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read DELNOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of RONDEL. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start RONDEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 42
Could you have found RONDEL?
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