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REDBACKS
Definition of REDBACKS
noun
plural of redback
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Word DNA
REDBACKS inherits its ancestry from its root, REDBACK.
How it is built
Same root, REDBACK · 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.
REDBACKS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 147, 14 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
REDBACKS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABCDEKRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found REDBACKS?
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 147 - and most players walked straight past it.
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