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RAINDROPS
Definition of RAINDROPS
noun
plural of raindrop
RAINDROP
noun
A single droplet of rainwater that has just fallen or is falling from the sky.
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Word DNA
RAINDROPS inherits its ancestry from its root, RAINDROP.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (1,002)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RAINDROP · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RAINDROPS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RAINDROPS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADINOPRRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start RAINDR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RAINDROPS?
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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.
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