The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
RATU
Definition of RATU
noun
A Fijian chief or chiefly titleholder.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Fijian Ratu.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RATU in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 104, 1 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 129, 26 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 129, 26 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RATU starts with R and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read ARTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found RATU?
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 104 - and most players walked straight past it.
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