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TAUTOG
Definition of TAUTOG
noun
A fish of the wrasse family found in salt water off of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina (Tautoga onitis).
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Narragansett tautauog, plural of taut.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TAUTOG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TAUTOG starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGOTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start TAUTOG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TAUTOG?
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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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