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TABORINES

9 letters

Definition of TABORINES

noun

plural of taborine

TABORINE

noun

A small, shallow drum; a tabor.

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Word DNA

TABORINES inherits its ancestry from its root, TABORINE.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

2.8%

of traced words share this origin (731)

Romance

branch · 15.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, TABORINE · 1 relative in the game

TABORINE

Every Old French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

TABORINES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 128
Its one board, across 128 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
128
First board
0
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 128, 25 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

tem

on Day 128, 25 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TABORINES
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
9
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TABORINES starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEINORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start TABORI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TABORINTABORINETABORINGTABORINS

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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 128 - and most players walked straight past it.

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