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TACKIES
Definition of TACKIES
noun
plural of tackie
TACKIE
noun
A canvas shoe with a rubber sole.
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Word DNA
TACKIES inherits its ancestry from its root, TACKIE.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
35th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (145)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TACKIE · 1 relative 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.
TACKIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 78, 6 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 89, 17 August 2026.
Built from these letters
TACKIES starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEIKST - 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.
Could you have found TACKIES?
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 78 - and most players walked straight past it.
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