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ROULETTE

/ɹuːˈlɛt/8 letters

Definition of ROULETTE

noun

A game of chance in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered (usually red and black) spaces. When the ball stops, it indicates the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French roulette (“roulette, little wheel”). The sense "situation with a random chance of incurring serious harm" may be abstracted from Russian roulette.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ROULETTE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 111
Its one board, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
106
First board
5
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

prismaticskye

on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ROULETTE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

ROULETTE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EELORTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and T appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start ROULET

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ROULETTE?

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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.

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