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RUMINAL

7 letters

Definition of RUMINAL

adjective

Of, relating to, or situated inside the rumen.

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Word DNA

How it is built

adjective

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

RUMINAL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 178
Its 19 boards, across 178 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
19
Boards found on
55
First board
177
Latest board
28
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 55, 14 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 177, 13 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

tyler

on Day 55, 14 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RUMINAL
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RUMINAL starts with R and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AILMNRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start RUMINA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found RUMINAL?

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 55 - and most players walked straight past it.

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