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RARES

5 letters

Definition of RARES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of rare

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

RARES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 118
Its one board, across 118 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
90
First board
28
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 28 days.

First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.

Built from these letters

RARES
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RARES starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AERRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

RASERREARSSERRA

Words that start RARES

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found RARES?

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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.

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