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RAINSTICK
Definition of RAINSTICK
noun
A hollow tube partially filled with pebbles or beans, and with small pins or thorns arranged helically on its inner surface, so that it produces a rain-like sound when upended.
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Where it comes from
From rain + stick.
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.
RAINSTICK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RAINSTICK starts with R and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read ACIIKNRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start RAINST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RAINSTICK?
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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.
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