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RUBACE

6 letters

Definition of RUBACE

noun

Alternative form of rubasse (“form of quartz”).

RUBASSE

noun

crystalline quartz coloured red by hematite

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Word DNA

RUBACE inherits its ancestry from its root, RUBASSE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,072)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, RUBASSE · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

RUBACE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 171
Its one board, across 171 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
158
First board
13
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

cliffordinwales

on Day 158, 25 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RUBACE
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RUBACE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABCERU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start RUBACE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

RUBACES

Could you have found RUBACE?

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 158 - and most players walked straight past it.

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