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RUNABOUT

8 letters

Definition of RUNABOUT

noun

Any of several small vehicles, especially a small motor car for use on short journeys.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Deverbal from run about.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

RUNABOUT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 112
Its 3 boards, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
79
First board
109
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 79, 7 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

smudger

on Day 79, 7 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RUNABOUT
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

RUNABOUT starts with R and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABNORTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.

Words that start RUNABO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found RUNABOUT?

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 79 - and most players walked straight past it.

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