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RANKISM
Definition of RANKISM
noun
Abuse, discrimination, or exploitation based on rank.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From rank + -ism, probably by analogy with words like racism and sexism. It was coined by American physicist, author and social reformer Robert Works Fuller (1936–2025).
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.
RANKISM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 107, 4 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RANKISM starts with R and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AIKMNRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found RANKISM?
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 107 - and most players walked straight past it.
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