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RAGE
Definition of RAGE
noun
Violent uncontrolled anger.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English rage, from Anglo-Norman rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”). Doublet of rabies. Displaced native Middle English wode, from Old English wōd ("madness, fury, rage"; compare Modern dialectal English wood (“mad, insane, furious, raging”)); and Middle English hotherte (“anger”), from Old English hātheort (“fury, anger, wrath, rage”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,951)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RAGE · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RAGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 31, 20 June 2026.
Built from these letters
RAGE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RAGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found RAGE?
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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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