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RUDES
Definition of RUDES
Wiktionary has no entry for RUDES itself. This is its base word, RUDE.
adjective
Lacking in refinement or civility; bad-mannered; discourteous.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for RUDE.
From Middle English rude, from Old French rude, ruide, from Latin rudis (“rough, raw, rude, wild, untilled”).
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.
RUDES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 15, 4 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RUDES starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DERSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RUDES
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found RUDES?
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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
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