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RATFINKED

9 letters

Definition of RATFINKED

verb

simple past and past participle of ratfink.

RATFINK

noun

An informer or spy; a traitor.

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Word DNA

RATFINKED inherits its ancestry from its root, RATFINK.

How it is built

verbcompound

Same root, RATFINK · 2 relatives in the game

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.

RATFINKED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 174
Its 2 boards, across 174 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
158
First board
160
Latest board
2
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 158, 25 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

esperluettePATRON

on Day 158, 25 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RATFINKED
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RATFINKED starts with R and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEFIKNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start RATFIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found RATFINKED?

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 158 - and most players walked straight past it.

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