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ROUTINE
Definition of ROUTINE
noun
A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
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Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from French routine. By surface analysis, route + -ine. Further from Latin rupta via. Compare typologically travel << Latin tripālium, whence also travail, note the inverse semantic vector from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey). Also compare Czech běžný (< běžet), Russian обихо́д (obixód), обихо́дный (obixódnyj) (akin to ходи́ть (xodítʹ)).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ROUTINE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
ROUTINE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EINORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ROUTIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found ROUTINE?
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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