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RHEUMY
Definition of RHEUMY
adjective
Of, relating to, or made of rheum (“thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum”); watery.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
RHEUMY carries 4 further meanings.
Affected by rheum; full of rheum or watery matter.
Causing rheum.
adjective
Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum.
adjective
of, relating to, or producing rheum from the mucous membranes; watery
Where it comes from
From rheum + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, RHEUM · 6 relatives 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.
RHEUMY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 57 boards so far. 211 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 13, 2 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RHEUMY starts with R and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EHMRUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of RHEUMY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Also seen on Day 13
Could you have found RHEUMY?
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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.
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