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TEILS
Definition of TEILS
noun
plural of teil
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Word DNA
TEILS inherits its ancestry from its root, TEIL.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,633)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TEIL · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TEILS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 37, 26 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TEILS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EILST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
6 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found TEILS?
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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.
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