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RABATOS
Definition of RABATOS
noun
plural of rabato
noun
Stiff collar, wired or starched, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries; sometimes used as a support for the ruff.
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Word DNA
RABATOS inherits its ancestry from its root, RABATO.
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,185)
branch · 15.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RABATO · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RABATOS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 136, 3 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RABATOS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AABORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found RABATOS?
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 136 - and most players walked straight past it.
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