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RETHINK

/ɹiːˈθɪŋk/7 letters

Definition of RETHINK

verb

To think again about something, with the intention of changing or replacing it.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From re- + think.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

RETHINK in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 7 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
20
First board
97
Latest board
43
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

queasyamphibian

on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

RETHINK
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

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 RETHIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

RETHINKSRETHINKERRETHINKERSRETHINKING

Could you have found RETHINK?

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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.

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