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SCANTLING
Definition of SCANTLING
noun
The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Alteration of scantillon + -ling, from Old French escantillon (“sample pattern”) (Modern French échantillon). Later senses also influenced by similarity with scant.
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 (2,496)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SCANTLE · 2 relatives 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.
SCANTLING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCANTLING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACGILNNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start SCANTL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCANTLING?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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