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RIBLETS

7 letters

Definition of RIBLETS

noun

plural of riblet

RIBLET

noun

Boneless processed pork or beef rib meat, served at restaurants and fast food places.

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Word DNA

RIBLETS inherits its ancestry from its root, RIB.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.3%

of traced words share this origin (11,293)

How it is built

noun

Same root, RIB · 14 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, Norwegian, Old Norse.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

RIBLETS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 160
Its 7 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
14
First board
148
Latest board
56
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 14, 3 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First found by a player on Day 14, 3 June 2026.

Also on

Built from these letters

RIBLETS
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RIBLETS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BEILRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start RIBLET

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found RIBLETS?

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 14 - and most players walked straight past it.

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