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RETIARIUS
Definition of RETIARIUS
noun
A gladiator who uses a casting net (a rete or iaculum) as a weapon.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin rētiārius.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RETIARIUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RETIARIUS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEIIRRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and I appear more than once.
Could you have found RETIARIUS?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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