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TALLOWED

8 letters

Definition of TALLOWED

verb

simple past and past participle of tallow

TALLOW

noun

A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants.

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Word DNA

TALLOWED inherits its ancestry from its root, TALLOW.

Line of descent

  1. Irish
  2. Proto-Indo-European
  3. Proto-Germanic
  4. Old English
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Irish

Deepest traced root

21st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.5%

of traced words share this origin (133)

Celtic

branch · 0.8% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, TALLOW · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch.

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

TALLOWED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 132
Its one board, across 132 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
131
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

klep

on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TALLOWED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TALLOWED starts with T and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADELLOTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start TALLOW

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TALLOWTALLOWSTALLOWYTALLOWINGTALLOWISH

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