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RITE
Definition of RITE
noun
A religious custom.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin ritus.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,861)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RITE · 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.
RITE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 74 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RITE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RITE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RITE?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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