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RIAD
Definition of RIAD
noun
A traditional Moroccan house or palace with an interior garden.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Arabic رِيَاض (riyāḍ)
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Arabic
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,104)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RIAD · 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.
RIAD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 40, 29 June 2026.
Built from these letters
RIAD starts with R and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADIR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found RIAD?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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