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RITARDANDOS
Definition of RITARDANDOS
noun
plural of ritardando
adverb
Gradually decelerating the tempo of a piece of music, especially at the end of the piece.
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Word DNA
RITARDANDOS inherits its ancestry from its root, RITARDANDO.
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 (548)
branch · 15.4% 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.
RITARDANDOS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
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
RITARDANDOS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AADDINORRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R, A and D appear more than once.
Could you have found RITARDANDOS?
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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