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TAWNIES
Definition of TAWNIES
noun
Clothes made of tawny-coloured fabric.
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Word DNA
TAWNIES inherits its ancestry from its root, TAWNY.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,700)
How it is built
Same root, TAWNY · 7 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TAWNIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 43 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TAWNIES starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEINSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TAWNIE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found TAWNIES?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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