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TAMARIND
Definition of TAMARIND
noun
A tropical tree, Tamarindus indica.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Late Middle English thamarynde, from Old French tamarinde, from Medieval Latin tamarindus, from Arabic تَمْر هِنْدِيّ (tamr hindiyy, literally “Indian date”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
12th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.3%
of traced words share this origin (380)
branch · 1.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TAMARIND · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Hindi.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TAMARIND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 77 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TAMARIND starts with T and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AADIMNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start TAMARI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found TAMARIND?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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