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TARTARE

/tɑːɹˈtɑːɹ/7 letters

Definition of TARTARE

adjective

Chopped fine and served raw.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

French tartare (literally “Tartar”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,301)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

adjective2 syllables

Same root, TARTARE · 1 relative in the game

Every French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

TARTARE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its one board, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
154
First board
10
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

sscmeee

on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TARTARE
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TARTARE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAERRTT - 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.

TARTARTARTARSTARTARESTARTARICTARTARLYTARTARISETARTARIZETARTAROUSTARTAREOUSTARTARISEDTARTARISESTARTARIZED

Could you have found TARTARE?

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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.

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