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ROUGHNECK
Definition of ROUGHNECK
noun
A labourer on an oil rig or in the oilpatch, either skilled or semiskilled.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From rough + neck, originally "someone who works a manual labour job".
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.
ROUGHNECK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 52, 11 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 52, 11 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ROUGHNECK starts with R and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read CEGHKNORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ROUGHN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 52
Could you have found ROUGHNECK?
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 52 - and most players walked straight past it.
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