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RAGSTONE
Definition of RAGSTONE
noun
Stone that is quarried in thin pieces.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From rag + stone.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RAGSTONE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
Built from these letters
RAGSTONE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGNORST - 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 RAGSTO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RAGSTONE?
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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