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RAMEN
Definition of RAMEN
noun
Soup noodles of wheat, with various ingredients (Japanese-Chinese style).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Japanese ラーメン (rāmen), from Mandarin 拉麵 / 拉面 (lāmiàn, “pulled noodles”). Doublet of laghman, lamian, and ramyeon.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
41st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.1%
of traced words share this origin (85)
branch · 0.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RAMEN · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RAMEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
RAMEN starts with R and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEMNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RAMEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found RAMEN?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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