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TAPHOLES
Definition of TAPHOLES
noun
plural of taphole
TAPHOLE
noun
In a blast furnace, a hole which molten metal or slag is tapped off through.
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Word DNA
TAPHOLES inherits its ancestry from its root, TAPHOLE.
How it is built
Same root, TAPHOLE · 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.
TAPHOLES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 128, 25 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 128, 25 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TAPHOLES starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEHLOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TAPHOL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TAPHOLES?
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 128 - and most players walked straight past it.
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