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RUTACEOUS
Definition of RUTACEOUS
adjective
Of or relating to plants of the family Rutaceae.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin ruta (“rue”) + -aceous. See rue (“the plant”).
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.
RUTACEOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 126, 23 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 126, 23 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RUTACEOUS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEORSTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Could you have found RUTACEOUS?
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 126 - and most players walked straight past it.
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