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RHAPONTICS
Definition of RHAPONTICS
noun
plural of rhapontic
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Word DNA
RHAPONTICS inherits its ancestry from its root, RHAPONTIC.
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,640)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RHAPONTIC · 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.
RHAPONTICS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 170, 6 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 170, 6 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RHAPONTICS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACHINOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found RHAPONTICS?
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 170 - and most players walked straight past it.
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