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RECULE

/ɹɪˈkjuːl/6 letters

Definition of RECULE

verb

To recoil or retreat; to draw back.

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Rarity score
Withheld
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.

RECULE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its one board, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
73
First board
29
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.

First ever to find it

russell

on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RECULE
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RECULE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEELRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

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 RECULE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

RECULEDRECULES

Could you have found RECULE?

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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.

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