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TICE

/taɪs/4 letters

Definition of TICE

noun

A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket; a yorker.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Possibly from entice, as below, suggesting the bowler's purpose.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

TICE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 112
Its 10 boards, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
10
Boards found on
14
First board
102
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 14, 3 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

mrcapcut14

on Day 14, 3 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

TICE
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TICE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEIT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start TICE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TICE?

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 14 - and most players walked straight past it.

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