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RICTUS
Definition of RICTUS
noun
A bird’s gaping mouth.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin rictus.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RICTUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 167 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
RICTUS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CIRSTU - 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.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found RICTUS?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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