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RUDIMENT
Definition of RUDIMENT
noun
A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
RUDIMENT carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A fundamental element, principle, or skill, as of a field of learning.
“the rudiments of calculus.”
noun
Something in an incipient or undeveloped form.
“the rudiments of social behavior in children; the rudiments of a plan of action.”
noun
An imperfectly or incompletely developed organ or part.
To furnish with first principles or rules; ground; settle in first principles.
Where it comes from
From Old French rudiment, from Latin rudimentum (“a first attempt, a beginning”), plural rudimenta (“the elements”), from rudis (“rude”); see rude. By surface analysis, rude + -i- + -ment.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,487)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RUDIMENT · 1 relative in the game
RUDIMENT in a sentence
“His is a strain of conceptualist evanescence that is highly material in its rudiment - a matter of celluloid disintegrated into acrylic emulsion.”
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RUDIMENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 52 boards so far. 119 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
RUDIMENT starts with R and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read DEIMNRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of RUDIMENT. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RUDIME
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found RUDIMENT?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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