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TANGERINE
Definition of TANGERINE
noun
A slightly ovoid, orange-coloured citrus fruit with a rough peel and a sour-sweet taste which is larger than a clementine and sometimes classed as a variety of mandarin orange.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French Tanger + English -ine, after Tangier, Morocco.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.1%
of traced words share this origin (1,903)
branch · 15.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TANGERINE · 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.
TANGERINE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 132, 29 September 2026.
Built from these letters
TANGERINE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEEGINNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and E appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found TANGERINE?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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