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RUINATE
Definition of RUINATE
verb
To reduce to ruins; to destroy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the participle stem of Latin ruino.
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.
RUINATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 77, 5 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 77, 5 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RUINATE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEINRTU - 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 RUINAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RUINATE?
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 77 - and most players walked straight past it.
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