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TACHISME

8 letters

Definition of TACHISME

noun

Alternative form of tachism.

TACHISM

noun

A French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Word DNA

TACHISME inherits its ancestry from its root, TACHISM.

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,269)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, TACHISM · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

TACHISME in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 161
Its 3 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
97
First board
148
Latest board
40
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 97, 25 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

atomicgypsy

on Day 97, 25 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TACHISME
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

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

Words that start TACHIS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TACHISMTACHISTTACHISMSTACHISTETACHISTSTACHISMESTACHISTESTACHISTOSCOPETACHISTOSCOPESTACHISTOSCOPIC

Could you have found TACHISME?

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 97 - and most players walked straight past it.

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