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REMBLAI
Definition of REMBLAI
noun
Earth or materials made into an embankment after excavation.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French remblai, from remblayer (“to fill up an excavation, to embank”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,108)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
REMBLAI in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 105 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 44, 3 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
REMBLAI starts with R and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read ABEILMR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start REMBLA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 44
Could you have found REMBLAI?
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 44 - and most players walked straight past it.
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