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REBUTTERS

9 letters

Definition of REBUTTERS

noun

plural of rebutter

REBUTTER

noun

One who drives back or repulses

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Word DNA

REBUTTERS 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 (2,283)

Romance

branch · 12.9% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompoundre-

Same root, REBUT · 7 relatives in the game

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

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

REBUTTERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 156
Its one board, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
138
First board
18
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.

First ever to find it

afp

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

REBUTTERS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

REBUTTERS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BEERRSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R, E and T appear 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.

BUTTERERS

Words that start REBUTT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found REBUTTERS?

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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.

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