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TARMACKED
About TARMACKED
TARMACKED is a valid 9-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TARMACKED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 102, 30 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TARMACKED starts with T and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AACDEKMRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start TARMAC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 51
Could you have found TARMACKED?
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 51 - and most players walked straight past it.
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