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RIVETTED

8 letters

Definition of RIVETTED

verb

simple past and past participle of rivet

RIVET

noun

A cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head at one end and is used to attach multiple parts together by passing its bucktail through a hole and upsetting its end to form a field head.

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Word DNA

RIVETTED inherits its ancestry from its root, RIVET.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (24,817)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, RIVET · 7 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

RIVETTED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 162
Its one board, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
154
First board
8
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

jvanderlan

on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RIVETTED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RIVETTED starts with R and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEIRTTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and T appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start RIVETT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found RIVETTED?

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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.

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