The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
RUCHE
Definition of RUCHE
noun
A strip of fabric which has been fluted or pleated.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French ruche, from Middle French rusche, from Old French rusche, from Early Medieval Latin rusca (“bark”), borrowed from Gaulish rūsca, from Proto-Celtic *rūskos (“bark”), from *rukskos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk- (“to dig up”), from *Hrew- (“to tear out, dig out”).
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.
RUCHE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
RUCHE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEHRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found RUCHE?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER