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TIERCEL
Definition of TIERCEL
noun
A male hawk or falcon.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English tercel, from Old French terçuel, from Late Latin tertiolus, the diminutive of Latin tertius (“third”). Sources disagree whether the connection is that the males of most species of birds of prey favoured in falconry are smaller than the females by about a third, or whether it refers to the supposition that only one egg in three yields a male.
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.
TIERCEL in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 90 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TIERCEL starts with T and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read CEEILRT - 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 TIERCE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found TIERCEL?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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