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ARUGULAS

8 letters

Definition of ARUGULAS

noun

plural of arugula

ARUGULA

noun

A yellowish-flowered Mediterranean herb of the mustard family with flavoured leaves, often eaten in salads, that has a distinct, peppery flavor, of three species: Eruca spp., especially Eruca sativa (syn. Eruca vesicaria subsp. sativa) Diplotaxis tenuifolia

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Word DNA

ARUGULAS inherits its ancestry from its root, ARUGULA.

Line of descent

  1. Italian
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Italian

Deepest traced root

10th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.7%

of traced words share this origin (1,311)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, ARUGULA · 1 relative in the game

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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.

ARUGULAS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 160
Its 11 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
41
First board
138
Latest board
23
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.

First ever to find it

mfhillman

on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ARUGULAS
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ARUGULAS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAGLRSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and U appear more than once.

Words that start ARUGUL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ARUGULAS?

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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.

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