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ROTUNDA
Definition of ROTUNDA
noun
A round building, usually small, often with a dome.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin rotunda, from rotundus (“round”). In the architectural sense, from Sancta Maria Rotunda (the name for a church in the Pantheon).
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.
ROTUNDA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 68 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 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 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
ROTUNDA starts with R and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ADNORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ROTUND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found ROTUNDA?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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