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ROUND
Definition of ROUND
symbol
rounding function
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English round, rounde, from Old Northern French roünt, rund, Old French ront, runt, reont (> French rond), from both Late Latin retundus and the original Latin rotundus. The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Doublet of rotund.
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.
ROUND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
ROUND starts with R and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DNORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ROUND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found ROUND?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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