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RUDIMENTAL
Definition of RUDIMENTAL
adjective
Rudimentary.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From rudiment + -al, perhaps after elemental.
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.
RUDIMENTAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 40 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 15, 4 June 2026.
Built from these letters
RUDIMENTAL starts with R and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ADEILMNRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start RUDIME
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found RUDIMENTAL?
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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