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RAMP
Definition of RAMP
noun
An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French rampe, from Middle French rampe, deverbal of ramper, from Old French ramper (“to crawl, climb, scale up”), from Frankish *hrampōn (“to contract oneself, wrinkle, rumple, crumple, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to shrivel, shrink”). Cognate with German Rampf (“retraction, curvature, shrinkage, spasm”). Doublet of romp. Akin also to Old English ġehrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple, rumple”), Old High German rimpfan (German rümpfen (“to wrinkle up”)). Compare Danish rimpe (“to fold" (archaic), "to baste”), Icelandic rimpa. More at rimple.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,919)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RAMP · 5 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Icelandic, Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RAMP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
RAMP starts with R and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read AMPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RAMP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found RAMP?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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