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RABIES
Definition of RABIES
noun
An infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as biting, excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin rabiēs (“rage, madness, fury”). Doublet of rage.
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.
RABIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 66 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 87, 15 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 8, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RABIES starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEIRS - 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.
Could you have found RABIES?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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