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TACO
Definition of TACO
noun
A Mexican snack food made of a small tortilla (soft- or hard-shelled) filled with ingredients such as meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables, and salsa.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish taco, of uncertain origin; see the Spanish entry for more.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Spanish
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
12th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.2%
of traced words share this origin (934)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TACO · 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.
TACO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TACO starts with T and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read ACOT - 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 TACO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found TACO?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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