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TABUN
Definition of TABUN
noun
An extremely toxic nerve gas; a clear, tasteless liquid, with the molecular formula C5H11N2O2P.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From German, a code name.
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.
TABUN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TABUN starts with T and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ABNTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TABUN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TABUN?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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