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ROUGHCAST
Definition of ROUGHCAST
noun
A crude model.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From rough + cast.
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.
ROUGHCAST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 97, 25 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 116, 13 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 97, 25 August 2026.
Built from these letters
ROUGHCAST starts with R and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACGHORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ROUGHC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ROUGHCAST?
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 97 - and most players walked straight past it.
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