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SCANTEST

8 letters

Definition of SCANTEST

adjective

superlative form of scant: most scant

SCANT

adjective

Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.

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Word DNA

SCANTEST inherits its ancestry from its root, SCANT.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old Norse
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

9%

of traced words share this origin (2,608)

How it is built

adjective

Same root, SCANT · 4 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SCANTEST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 144
Its one board, across 144 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
90
First board
54
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 54 days.

First ever to find it

taohuayuan

on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SCANTEST
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SCANTEST starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACENSSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and T appear more than once.

Words that start SCANTE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SCANTEST?

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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