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RATELS
Definition of RATELS
noun
plural of ratel
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RATELS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 82, 10 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 82, 10 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RATELS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AELRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
11 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found RATELS?
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 82 - and most players walked straight past it.
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