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RIBEYE

6 letters

Definition of RIBEYE

noun

Ellipsis of ribeye steak, a boneless ribsteak; a cut of steak from the beef rib.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

See rib eye.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun

Same root, RIBEYE · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

RIBEYE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 38 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 152
Its 16 boards, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
6
First board
137
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.

First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.

Built from these letters

RIBEYE
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RIBEYE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEEIRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start RIBEYE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found RIBEYE?

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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.

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