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RAILROAD
Definition of RAILROAD
noun
A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From rail + road. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “figurative usage?”)
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.
RAILROAD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 122 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 1, 22 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RAILROAD starts with R and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AADILORR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and A appear more than once.
Words that start RAILRO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found RAILROAD?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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