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VALET
Definition of VALET
noun
A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- Middle French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,613)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, VALET · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Irish, Welsh.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VALET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 54 boards so far. 83 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 13, 2 June 2026.
Built from these letters
VALET starts with V and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AELTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start VALET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 13
Could you have found VALET?
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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.
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