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RASTRUMS

8 letters

Definition of RASTRUMS

noun

plural of rastrum

RASTRUM

noun

A five-pointed writing implement used to draw parallel lines of a staff in sheet music.

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Word DNA

RASTRUMS inherits its ancestry from its root, RASTRUM.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,711)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, RASTRUM · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

RASTRUMS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 149
Its one board, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
90
First board
59
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 59 days.

First ever to find it

yhpezPATRON

on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RASTRUMS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
6
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start RASTRU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found RASTRUMS?

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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