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RABATTING

9 letters

Definition of RABATTING

verb

present participle and gerund of rabat

RABAT

noun

A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.

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Word DNA

RABATTING inherits its ancestry from its root, RABAT.

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

7.2%

of traced words share this origin (2,118)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, RABAT · 2 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

RABATTING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 151
Its one board, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
138
First board
13
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

ejabrown

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RABATTING
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RABATTING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AABGINRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and T appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start RABATT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

RABATTERABATTEDRABATTESRABATTINGSRABATTEMENT

Could you have found RABATTING?

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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.

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