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REBUTS

6 letters

Definition of REBUTS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of rebut

REBUT

verb

To drive back or beat back; to repulse.

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Word DNA

REBUTS inherits its ancestry from its root, REBUT.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,361)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundre-

Same root, REBUT · 7 relatives in the game

Every Old French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

REBUTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 165
Its 15 boards, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards found on
47
First board
162
Latest board
32
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

maksim

on Day 47, 6 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

REBUTS
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

REBUTS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BERSTU - 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 REBUTS?

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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.

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