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TRUANT
Definition of TRUANT
adjective
Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.
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Where it comes from
The adjective and noun are derived from Middle English truant, truand, truaund (“(adjective) idle; tending to vagrancy (uncertain; may be a use of the noun); (noun) beggar; mendicant friar; vagrant, wanderer; worthless person, rogue, scoundrel; one who is absent without leave, truant; one who shirks duties”), from Old French truant, truand (“(adjective) beggarly; roguish; (noun) a beggar, vagabond; a rogue”) (modern French truand), probably of Celtic origin, possibly from Gaulish *trugan, or from Breton truan (“wretched”), from Proto-Celtic *taratrom, from Proto-Indo-European *térh₁-tro-m, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, pierce; to rub; to turn”).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TRUANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TRUANT starts with T and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ANRTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start TRUANT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TRUANT?
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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