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TACKIFIED

9 letters

Definition of TACKIFIED

verb

simple past and past participle of tackify

TACKIFY

verb

To make (a material) tacky.

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Word DNA

TACKIFIED inherits its ancestry from its root, TACK.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Frankish
  3. French
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,787)

How it is built

verb

Same root, TACK · 15 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, German.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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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.

TACKIFIED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its 5 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
101
First board
147
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 101, 29 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First ever to find it

bfreeemb

on Day 101, 29 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TACKIFIED
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

TACKIFIED starts with T and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDEFIIKT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start TACKIF

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TACKIFIED?

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 101 - and most players walked straight past it.

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