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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).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Malay
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Malay

Deepest traced root

28th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.3%

of traced words share this origin (100)

Austronesian

branch · 0.5% of traced words

How it is built

noun3 syllablescompound-an

Same root, RAMBUTAN · 1 relative in the game

Every Malay word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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 20 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 151
Its 20 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
20
Boards found on
28
First board
143
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

eddy

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

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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