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RATTING
Definition of RATTING
verb
present participle and gerund of rat
RAT
symbol
ISO 639-3 language code for Razajerdi.
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Word DNA
RATTING 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.
RATTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 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
RATTING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGINRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RATTIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RATTING?
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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