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ROUGHIES
Definition of ROUGHIES
noun
plural of roughy
noun
A fish in family Trachichthyidae The orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus. Any of several marine fish of the related genus Trachichthys, which have rough and spiny scales.
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Word DNA
ROUGHIES inherits its ancestry from its root, ROUGHY.
How it is built
Same root, ROUGHY · 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.
ROUGHIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ROUGHIES starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EGHIORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ROUGHI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found ROUGHIES?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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