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RIGATONE
Definition of RIGATONE
noun
A piece of rigatoni.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Italian rigatone.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Italian
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.9%
of traced words share this origin (561)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RIGATONE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 143, 10 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RIGATONE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGINORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found RIGATONE?
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 143 - and most players walked straight past it.
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