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TAMP
Definition of TAMP
verb
To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Probably a back-formation from tampin (misinterpreted as tamping), a variant of tampion.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TAMP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TAMP starts with T and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read AMPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TAMP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TAMP?
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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