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TARTAR
Definition of TARTAR
noun
A red compound deposited during wine making, mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate; wine stone — a source of cream of tartar.
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Where it comes from
From Old French tartre, from Medieval Latin tartarum, from Medieval Greek τάρταρον (tártaron), said to be from Arabic دُرْدِيّ (durdiyy), though it is already found in Pelagonius’s Ars veterinaria 46 in the adjective tartarālis, if the reading is correct. Arabic etymon from Persian درد (dord, “dreg”) from Proto-Iranian *dr̥ti- (“manure, feces”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰṛ-to-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd- (“to have diarrhea”), whence also doublet of dirt.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,584)
How it is built
Same root, TARTAR · 2 relatives in the game
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TARTAR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
Built from these letters
TARTAR starts with T and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AARRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T, A and R appear more than once.
Words that start TARTAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TARTAR?
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