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RAVENOUS
Definition of RAVENOUS
adjective
Very hungry.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English ravenous, ravynous, from Old French ravineus. By surface analysis, ravin + -ous. As seen at raven and ravin, the word comes from a root referring to predation, not from the root referring to ravens (corvid birds); but folk etymology notes that the latter hypothesis seems plausible because ravens can often seem ravenous (especially as nestlings).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,307)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RAVENOUS · 1 relative 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.
RAVENOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 69 boards so far. 364 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 9, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RAVENOUS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AENORSUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start RAVENO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found RAVENOUS?
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