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TARTISH

7 letters

Definition of TARTISH

adjective

Mildly or slightly tart.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From tart + -ish.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompound-ish

Same root, TART · 11 relatives in the game

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.

TARTISH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 165
Its one board, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
148
First board
17
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.

First ever to find it

sniderman

on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TARTISH
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TARTISH starts with T and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AHIRSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears 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.

ATHIRSTRATTISH

Words that start TARTIS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TARTISH?

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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