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TARPAULINGS
Definition of TARPAULINGS
noun
plural of tarpauling
TARPAULIN · via tarpauling
noun
A heavy, waterproof sheet of material, often cloth or plastic sheet, used as a cover or blanket (often as weatherproofing, or to keep loose cargo from blowing off a lorry).
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Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TARPAULINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 58 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 91, 19 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TARPAULINGS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAGILNPRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start TARPAUL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TARPAULINGS?
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 91 - and most players walked straight past it.
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