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RIMOSE
Definition of RIMOSE
adjective
Having a surface covered with cracks, fissures, or crevices.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin rimosus, from rima (“fissure”).
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.
RIMOSE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 55 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 47, 6 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RIMOSE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIMORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RIMOSE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 47
Could you have found RIMOSE?
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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.
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