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ROUSTED
Definition of ROUSTED
verb
simple past and past participle of roust
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Another sense
ROUSTED carries a second meaning.
verb
Simple past tense and past participle of roust.
Word DNA
ROUSTED inherits its ancestry from its root, ROUST.
How it is built
Same root, ROUST · 4 relatives in the game
ROUSTED in a sentence
“From the car left in Times Square on a busy Saturday night loaded with a home made bomb, to witnesses noticing the smoke and flashes of light inside, to the New York mayor being rousted from a black-tie dinner in DC to rush home, to the breathless, last-minute race to the airport to nab the suspect before he went airborne to Pakistan.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ROUSTED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 52 boards so far. 100 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 20, 9 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ROUSTED starts with R and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found ROUSTED?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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