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RATICIDE

8 letters

Definition of RATICIDE

noun

rat poison.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From rat + -cide.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

RATICIDE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its 2 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
50
First board
90
Latest board
40
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.

First ever to find it

ema05

on Day 50, 9 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RATICIDE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RATICIDE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACDEIIRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start RATICI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found RATICIDE?

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 50 - and most players walked straight past it.

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