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ROUGHENED
Definition of ROUGHENED
verb
simple past and past participle of roughen
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ROUGHENED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 82, 10 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 82, 10 August 2026.
Built from these letters
ROUGHENED starts with R and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEGHNORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
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 ROUGHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ROUGHENED?
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 82 - and most players walked straight past it.
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