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TEQUILA
Definition of TEQUILA
noun
An alcoholic liquor distilled from the fermented juice of the Central American century plant Agave tequilana.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish tequila, from Tequila, a town in Jalisco.
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.
TEQUILA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TEQUILA starts with T and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AEILQTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
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 TEQUIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found TEQUILA?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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