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TANKY
Definition of TANKY
adjective
Having a dank quality resulting from excessive ageing in a tank.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From tank + -y (adjectival suffix).
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.
TANKY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TANKY starts with T and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AKNTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found TANKY?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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