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WANTONED

8 letters

Definition of WANTONED

verb

simple past and past participle of wanton

WANTON

adjective

Undisciplined, unruly; not able to be controlled.

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Word DNA

WANTONED inherits its ancestry from its root, WANTON.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

6th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

4.2%

of traced words share this origin (1,211)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundun-wan-

Same root, WANTON · 3 relatives in the game

Every Old English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

WANTONED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 146
Its 2 boards, across 146 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
132
First board
139
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

mountainpenguin

on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WANTONED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

WANTONED starts with W and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADENNOTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.

Words that start WANTON

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

WANTONWANTONSWANTONERWANTONLYWANTONERSWANTONESTWANTONINGWANTONISEWANTONIZEWANTONISEDWANTONISESWANTONIZED

Could you have found WANTONED?

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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.

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