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RUMINATE
Definition of RUMINATE
verb
To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
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Where it comes from
First attested in 1533; borrowed from Latin rūminātus, perfect active participle of rūminor (“to chew the cud, turn over in the mind”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from rūmen (“the throat, gullet”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), itself of uncertain origin.
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.
RUMINATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 51 boards so far. 185 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 13, 2 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RUMINATE starts with R and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEIMNRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start RUMINA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found RUMINATE?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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