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SCANTLE
Definition of SCANTLE
verb
To scant; to be niggardly with; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Old French escanteler, eschanteler.
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
2.8%
of traced words share this origin (751)
branch · 15.2% 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.
SCANTLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 130, 27 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 130, 27 September 2026.
Built from these letters
SCANTLE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACELNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SCANTL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCANTLE?
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 130 - and most players walked straight past it.
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