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TIMBERS

7 letters

Definition of TIMBERS

noun

plural of timber

TIMBER

noun

Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

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Word DNA

TIMBERS inherits its ancestry from its root, TIMBER.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,843)

How it is built

noun

Same root, TIMBER · 8 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Irish, Latin, Norwegian and 7 more.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

TIMBERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 168
Its 18 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
18
Boards found on
7
First board
166
Latest board
31
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

TIMBERS
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TIMBERS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BEIMRST - 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 TIMBER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TIMBERS?

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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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