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RUTILANT
Definition of RUTILANT
adjective
Shining or glowing with a red colour or light.
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Where it comes from
From Late Middle English rutilaunt (“shining with a gold or red colour”), from rutilāns (“reddening”), an adjective use of the present participle of rutilō (“to redden”) (from rutilus (“(yellowish) red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”)). The English word is cognate with Italian rutilante, Portuguese rutilante, Spanish rutilante.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,769)
How it is built
Its etymology also names Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RUTILANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 167, 3 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RUTILANT starts with R and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AILNRTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Could you have found RUTILANT?
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