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RIGOR

/ˈɹɪɡə/5 letters

Definition of RIGOR

noun

US spelling of rigour.

RIGOUR

noun

Severity or strictness.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Old French, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

RIGOR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 125
Its one board, across 125 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
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Boards found on
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First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

phelps

on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RIGOR
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start RIGOR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

RIGORSRIGORISMRIGORISTRIGOROUSRIGORISMSRIGORISTSRIGORISTICRIGOROUSLYRIGOROUSNESSRIGOROUSNESSES

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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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.

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