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RAMBUTAN

/ɹæmˈbutən/8 letters

Definition of RAMBUTAN

noun

A tree of species Nephelium lappaceum, of Southeast Asia.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Malay rambutan, from rambut (“hair”) + -an (“forming nouns”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

RAMBUTAN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 101
Its 11 boards, across 101 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
28
First board
99
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

eddy

on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

RAMBUTAN
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RAMBUTAN starts with R and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AABMNRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start RAMBUT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found RAMBUTAN?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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