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TINCALS
Definition of TINCALS
Wiktionary has no entry for TINCALS itself. This is its base word, TINCAL.
noun
crude native borax, formerly imported from Tibet, and once the chief source of boric compounds
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for TINCAL.
From Arabic تِنْكَار (tinkār), from Persian تنکار (tankâr), from Sanskrit टांकण (ṭāṃkaṇa). Compare altincar and tincar.
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.
TINCALS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 100, 28 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TINCALS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACILNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found TINCALS?
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 100 - and most players walked straight past it.
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