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SWANKIER

8 letters

Definition of SWANKIER

adjective

comparative form of swanky: more swanky

SWANKY

adjective

Rather posh, elegant, ritzy.

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Word DNA

SWANKIER inherits its ancestry from its root, SWANK.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,750)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjective

Same root, SWANK · 7 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Scots.

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

SWANKIER in a sentence

“This place was definitely swankier than Ocha, decor was certainly appealing, and the place was bustling.”

Lunch’er “Jon” Reports: Ocha vs. Aoki | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan, 2009

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

SWANKIER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 62 boards so far. 310 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 161
Its 62 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
62
Boards found on
7
First board
160
Latest board
8
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

SWANKIER
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SWANKIER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEIKNRSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start SWANKI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SWANKIESWANKIESSWANKILYSWANKINGSWANKIESTSWANKINESSSWANKINESSES

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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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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