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TABES
Definition of TABES
noun
A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease. Tabes dorsalis.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin tābēs.
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.
TABES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TABES starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
7 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TABES
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found TABES?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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