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VAUNT
Definition of VAUNT
verb
To speak boastfully.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
VAUNT carries 4 further meanings.
intransitive verb
To speak or write about (something) in a strongly positive way; praise or boast about.
intransitive verb
To speak boastfully; brag. synonym: boast.
noun
A boastful remark.
noun
Speech of extravagant self-praise.
Where it comes from
From Middle English vaunten, from Anglo-Norman vaunter, variant of Old French vanter, from Latin vānus (“vain, boastful”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,378)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, VAUNT · 8 relatives in the game
VAUNT in a sentence
“The script may vaunt Eduardo and demonize Zuckerberg, but it also begs the question -- who would we rather be, given the way things turned out?”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VAUNT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 68 boards so far. 283 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
VAUNT starts with V and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ANTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of VAUNT. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start VAUNT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found VAUNT?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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