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TAILINGS

8 letters

Definition of TAILINGS

noun

plural of tailing

TAIL · via tailing

noun

The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

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.

TAILINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 58 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 143
Its 24 boards, across 143 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
24
Boards found on
49
First board
138
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 49, 8 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

smudger

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

Built from these letters

TAILINGS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start TAILIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TAILINGS?

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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