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ROCKABYE
Definition of ROCKABYE
verb
To rock soothingly.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the nursery rhyme Rock-a-bye Baby, previously recorded as "Hush-a-by(e) baby"; blend of rock + lullaby or rock + -abye (as in hush-a-bye, from -a- (connective interfix) + bye (“goodbye, bye-bye”)).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ROCKABYE · 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.
ROCKABYE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 130, 27 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 39 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 135, 2 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ROCKABYE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABCEKORY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ROCKAB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ROCKABYE?
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 130 - and most players walked straight past it.
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