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TARTANS
Definition of TARTANS
noun
Clothes made from tartan fabric; specifically, full Highland dress.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From tartan + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and plural forms of nouns; and third-person singular simple present indicative forms of regular verbs).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, TARTAN · 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.
TARTANS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TARTANS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AANRSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and A appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TARTAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TARTANS?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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