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TALA

4 letters

Definition of TALA

noun

The currency of Samoa, divided into 100 sene.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Samoan tālā, in turn from English dollar.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

TALA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its one board, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
75
First board
45
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 75, 3 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 45 days.

First ever to find it

ami13

on Day 75, 3 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TALA
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TALA starts with T and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AALT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start TALA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TALAKTALAQTALARTALASTALAKSTALANTTALAQSTALARSTALANTSTALARIATALAUNTTALAYOT

Could you have found TALA?

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 75 - and most players walked straight past it.

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