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ROTUND
Definition of ROTUND
adjective
Having a round, spherical or curved shape; circular; orbicular.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin rotundus (“round”), from Latin rota (“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run, to roll”). Doublet of round.
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.
ROTUND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 46 boards so far. 121 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
ROTUND starts with R and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DNORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ROTUND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found ROTUND?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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