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WONT
Definition of WONT
noun
One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English wont, from Old English ġewunod, past participle of ġewunian (“to be accustomed to, dwell”), the noun sense possibly arising via conflation of wone (“custom, habit, practice”) and the adjective wont. Compare German Low German Gewohnte (“custom, habit”), Dutch gewoonte, Swedish van. Likely related to wone, wonder, wean, and win.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WONT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 95 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WONT starts with W and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read NOTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start WONT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found WONT?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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