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TARTANES
Definition of TARTANES
noun
plural of tartane
TARTAN · via tartane
noun
Woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders, now with different clans (though this only dates from the late 18th century) and some Scottish families and institutions having their own patterns; a particular type of such fabric.
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Word DNA
TARTANES inherits its ancestry from its root, TARTAN.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.2%
of traced words share this origin (4,835)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TARTAN · 4 relatives 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.
TARTANES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TARTANES starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAENRSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and A appear more than once.
Words that start TARTAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TARTANES?
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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.
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