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TILES
Definition of TILES
noun
plural of tile
noun
A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc.
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Word DNA
TILES inherits its ancestry from its root, TILE.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,636)
How it is built
Same root, TILE · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Icelandic, Italian and 5 more.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TILES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 12, 1 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TILES starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EILST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
7 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found TILES?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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