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TAMARI

6 letters

Definition of TAMARI

noun

A type of soy sauce made without wheat, having a rich flavor.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Japanese 溜まり.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Japanese
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Japanese

Deepest traced root

17th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

0.6%

of traced words share this origin (175)

Japonic

branch · 0.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, TAMARI · 1 relative in the game

Every Japanese 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.

TAMARI in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 142
Its 9 boards, across 142 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
83
First board
136
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 83, 11 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

happylabber

on Day 83, 11 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

TAMARI
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TAMARI starts with T and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read AAIMRT - 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 TAMARI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TAMARI?

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 83 - and most players walked straight past it.

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