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RATS
Definition of RATS
noun
plural of rat
RAT
symbol
ISO 639-3 language code for Razajerdi.
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Word DNA
RATS 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
21st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (353)
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.
RATS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
RATS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ARST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found RATS?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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