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RUTHENIUM
Definition of RUTHENIUM
noun
A metallic chemical element (symbol Ru) with an atomic number of 44.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Ruthenia + -ium. Named by Baltic German scientist Karl Ernst Claus in 1844 in honour of Russia (using the Latin name Ruthenia).
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.
RUTHENIUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
RUTHENIUM starts with R and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read EHIMNRTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Words that start RUTHEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found RUTHENIUM?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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