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RATHER
About RATHER
RATHER is a valid 6-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
Word DNA
RATHER inherits its ancestry from its root, RATH.
Line of descent
- Irish
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
22nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.5%
of traced words share this origin (134)
branch · 0.8% of traced words
Same root, RATH · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RATHER in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
Built from these letters
RATHER starts with R and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEHRRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start RATHER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RATHER?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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