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TANBARKS

8 letters

Definition of TANBARKS

noun

plural of tanbark

TANBARK

noun

The bark of the oak (or other trees) used as a source of tannin.

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Word DNA

TANBARKS inherits its ancestry from its root, TANBARK.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, TANBARK · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

TANBARKS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 162
Its one board, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
148
First board
14
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

pacifically

on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TANBARKS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TANBARKS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AABKNRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start TANBAR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TANBARKS?

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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.

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