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TAILERS

7 letters

Definition of TAILERS

noun

plural of tailer

TAILER

noun

One who follows or tails surreptitiously, as an investigator.

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Word DNA

TAILERS inherits its ancestry from its root, TAIL.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  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 (11,554)

How it is built

noun

Same root, TAIL · 6 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Icelandic, Sanskrit, Swedish.

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

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

TAILERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 163
Its 13 boards, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
49
First board
162
Latest board
30
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 49, 8 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

evangeline76

on Day 49, 8 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TAILERS
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

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

Words that start TAILER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TAILERS?

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 49 - and most players walked straight past it.

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