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SLANT
Definition of SLANT
noun
A slope; an incline, inclination.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectal slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SLANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SLANT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ALNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SLANT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found SLANT?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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