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REISM

5 letters

Definition of REISM

noun

A form of concretism stating that (i) every object is a body and (ii) no object is a state or relation, or property.

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Where it comes from

From Latin rēs (“thing”) + -ism.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,234)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ism

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

REISM in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its one board, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
153
First board
20
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.

First found by a player on Day 153, 20 October 2026.

Built from these letters

REISM
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

REISM starts with R and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read EIMRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

6 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found REISM?

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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.

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