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TELEDU
Definition of TELEDU
noun
A stink badger, a mammal endemic to the island of Java, Mydaus javanensis.
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Where it comes from
From Malay teledu.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TELEDU in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 78, 6 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 42 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 78, 6 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TELEDU starts with T and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read DEELTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TELEDU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TELEDU?
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 78 - and most players walked straight past it.
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