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TAMBOURINS
Definition of TAMBOURINS
noun
plural of tambourin
TAMBOURINE · via tambourin
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
TAMBOURINS inherits its ancestry from its root, TAMBOURIN.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
19th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.5%
of traced words share this origin (158)
branch · 0.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TAMBOURIN · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TAMBOURINS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 143, 10 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TAMBOURINS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABIMNORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TAMBOU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TAMBOURINS?
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 143 - and most players walked straight past it.
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