The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

RUDERALS

8 letters

Definition of RUDERALS

noun

plural of ruderal

RUDERAL

noun

Any plant growing in rubbish or very poor soil.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Word DNA

RUDERALS inherits its ancestry from its root, RUDERAL.

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 (26,276)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, RUDERAL · 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.

RUDERALS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its 2 boards, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
141
First board
152
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First ever to find it

tory_spelling

on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RUDERALS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RUDERALS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADELRRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.

Words that start RUDERA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found RUDERALS?

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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.

Play today's OUTLIER