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TAPEWORMS
Definition of TAPEWORMS
noun
plural of tapeworm
noun
Any parasitical worm of the class or infraclass Cestoda, which infests the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle. A broad fish tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium latum.
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Word DNA
TAPEWORMS inherits its ancestry from its root, TAPEWORM.
How it is built
Same root, TAPEWORM · 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.
TAPEWORMS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TAPEWORMS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEMOPRSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found TAPEWORMS?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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