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ROAM
Definition of ROAM
verb
To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English romen, from Old English rāmian, from Proto-Germanic *raimōną (“to wander”), from *raim- (“to move, raise”), from *h₃reyH- (“to move, lift, flow”). Akin to Old English ārǣman (“to arise, stand up, lift up”), Old High German rāmēn (“to aim”) (> archaic German rahmen (“to strive”)), Middle Dutch rammen (“to night-wander, to copulate”), rammelen (“to wander about, ramble”). More at ramble.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ROAM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 2, 23 May 2026.
Built from these letters
ROAM starts with R and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AMOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ROAM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ROAM?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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