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RATO
Definition of RATO
noun
Alternative form of RATO (“rocket-assisted takeoff”).
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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.
RATO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 63, 22 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 82, 10 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 38 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 63, 22 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RATO starts with R and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read AORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RATO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RATO?
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 63 - and most players walked straight past it.
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