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RUSTLES

7 letters

Definition of RUSTLES

noun

plural of rustle

RUSTLE

noun

A soft crackling sound similar to the movement of dry leaves.

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Word DNA

RUSTLES inherits its ancestry from its root, RUSTLE.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.7%

of traced words share this origin (2,984)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, RUSTLE · 5 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Afrikaans, Dutch, German, Scots.

Every Old English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

RUSTLES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its one board, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
118
First board
46
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 46 days.

First ever to find it

juniper

on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RUSTLES
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RUSTLES starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ELRSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

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

Words that start RUSTLE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

RUSTLERUSTLEDRUSTLERRUSTLERSRUSTLESS

Could you have found RUSTLES?

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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.

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