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TASE

/teɪz/4 letters

Definition of TASE

verb

to operate a taser or electroshock stun gun, by using it against a subject

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Back-formation from taser, from the trademark Taser, by reinterpretation as tase + -er.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

verb1 syllablecompound-er

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.

TASE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its one board, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
163
First board
6
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

carynv

on Day 163, 30 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TASE
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TASE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

9 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start TASE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TASEDTASERTASERSTASEREDTASERINGTASEOMETERTASEOMETERS

Could you have found TASE?

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 163 - and most players walked straight past it.

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