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TAMBOURINES
Definition of TAMBOURINES
noun
plural of tambourine
noun
A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
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Word DNA
TAMBOURINES inherits its ancestry from its root, TAMBOURINE.
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,103)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TAMBOURINE · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Arabic, Persian.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TAMBOURINES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 140 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TAMBOURINES starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEIMNORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TAMBOUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found TAMBOURINES?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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