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RITARDANDO
Definition of RITARDANDO
adverb
Gradually decelerating the tempo of a piece of music, especially at the end of the piece.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Italian ritardando, gerund of ritardare (“to delay, to slow down”).
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 (544)
branch · 15.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RITARDANDO · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RITARDANDO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RITARDANDO starts with R and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read AADDINORRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R, A and D appear more than once.
Words that start RITARD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RITARDANDO?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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