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RATTIEST
Definition of RATTIEST
adjective
superlative form of ratty: most ratty
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Word DNA
RATTIEST 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.
RATTIEST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RATTIEST starts with R and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEIRSTTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found RATTIEST?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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