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RUBRICATIONS

12 letters

Definition of RUBRICATIONS

noun

plural of rubrication

RUBRICATION

noun

A form of calligraphy, in medieval manuscripts, in which added text was coloured in red.

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Word DNA

RUBRICATIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, RUBRICATION.

How it is built

nouncompound-ation

Same root, RUBRICATION · 1 relative in the game

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.

RUBRICATIONS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 146
Its one board, across 146 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
6
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

holocrypt

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RUBRICATIONS
12
Letters
5
Vowels
7
Consonants
10
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

RUBRICATIONS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABCIINORRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and I appear more than once.

Words that start RUBRICAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

RUBRICATERUBRICATEDRUBRICATESRUBRICATORRUBRICATINGRUBRICATIONRUBRICATORS

Could you have found RUBRICATIONS?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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