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RATHOUSE
Definition of RATHOUSE
noun
Alternative form of rat house.
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Word DNA
RATHOUSE inherits its ancestry from its root, RAT.
Line of descent
- Middle Low German
- Sanskrit
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- Italian
- French
- Catalan
- Latin
- Swedish
- Icelandic
- Norwegian
- Danish
- Yiddish
- Dutch
- Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Germanic
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
18 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
22nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (354)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RAT · 22 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.
RATHOUSE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 57 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 108, 5 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RATHOUSE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEHORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RATHOU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RATHOUSE?
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 108 - and most players walked straight past it.
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