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RIVETERS
Definition of RIVETERS
noun
plural of riveter
RIVETER
noun
A person whose job is to rivet. A gunner; the member of a riveting team who uses a rivet gun, fitted with a rivet set which matches the shape of the factory head of a solid rivet, to impact that rivet (which is heated if necessary to soften it), while the bucker (or holder-up) holds a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of the rivet, upsetting it to form the field head. If the rivets have to be heated, the team will also include a cook and a catcher; see rivet for more details. Riveting team working on an aircraft cockpit shell. The riveter on the left operates an air-powered rivet gun, while the bucker on the right holds a bucking bar.
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Word DNA
RIVETERS inherits its ancestry from its root, RIVETER.
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RIVETERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RIVETERS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEIRRSTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and E appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found RIVETERS?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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