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RUFF
Definition of RUFF
noun
A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Clipping of ruffle, or possibly from rough.
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.
RUFF in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 117, 14 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RUFF starts with R and ends with F. Sorted, its letters read FFRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start RUFF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RUFF?
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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.
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