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RIDICULE
Definition of RIDICULE
verb
To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.
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Where it comes from
The obsolete adjective is borrowed from French ridicule, from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”). The noun is either from French, noun use of adjective, or from Latin rīdiculum, noun use of neuter of rīdiculus. The verb is from the noun or else from French ridiculer, from ridicule.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RIDICULE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
RIDICULE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CDEIILRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start RIDICU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found RIDICULE?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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