The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
RAMPERS
Definition of RAMPERS
noun
plural of ramper
noun
One of a gang of ruffians who intimidated bookmakers at races, claiming to have placed bets when they had not.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
RAMPERS inherits its ancestry from its root, RAMP.
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 (4,080)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RAMP · 6 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.
RAMPERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RAMPERS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEMPRRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found RAMPERS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER