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TIGHT
Definition of TIGHT
adjective
Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English tight, tyght, tyȝt, tiht, variants of thight, thiht, from Old English *þiht, *þīht (attested in meteþiht), from Proto-West Germanic *þį̄ht(ī), from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tenkt- (“dense, thick, tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, pull”). Cognate with Scots ticht, West Frisian ticht, Danish tæt, Icelandic þéttur (“dense”), Norwegian tett, Swedish tät, Dutch dicht (“dense”), German dicht (“dense”). The current form with t- /t/ rather than etymologically-expected th- /θ/ arose in Middle English under the influence of the etymologically-unrelated verbs tighten and tight, which come from a different Proto-Indo-European root (starting with *d- and thus regularly having t-).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TIGHT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TIGHT starts with T and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read GHITT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start TIGHT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TIGHT?
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