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RIDGED

/ˈɹɪd͡ʒd/6 letters

Definition of RIDGED

adjective

Having ridges.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English rigged, riggid, ryggyd, rugged, equivalent to ridge + -ed.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,144)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjective1 syllablecompound-ed

Same root, RIDGE · 11 relatives in the game

Every Middle English 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.

RIDGED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its 3 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
132
First board
141
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.

First ever to find it

cjtimmerman

on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RIDGED
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

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

Could you have found RIDGED?

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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.

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