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RANCID
Definition of RANCID
adjective
Rank in taste or smell.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin rancidus (“stinking, rank, rancid, offensive”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RANCID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 39 boards so far. 110 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 6, 27 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RANCID starts with R and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDINR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start RANCID
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RANCID?
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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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