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ROULETTE
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).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
20th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.5%
of traced words share this origin (370)
branch · 0.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ROULETTE · 3 relatives 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.
ROULETTE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
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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