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RANCHLIKE
Definition of RANCHLIKE
adjective
Resembling or characteristic of a ranch.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From ranch + -like.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RANCHLIKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 95, 23 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 95, 23 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
RANCHLIKE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEHIKLNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start RANCHL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RANCHLIKE?
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 95 - and most players walked straight past it.
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