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TABORED
Definition of TABORED
verb
simple past and past participle of tabor
noun
A small drum. In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.
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Word DNA
TABORED inherits its ancestry from its root, TABOR.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
19th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.6%
of traced words share this origin (163)
branch · 0.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TABOR · 4 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TABORED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 52, 11 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 99 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 52, 11 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TABORED starts with T and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABDEORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TABORE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 52
Could you have found TABORED?
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 52 - and most players walked straight past it.
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