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TOADS
Definition of TOADS
noun
plural of toad
noun
An amphibian, a kind of frog (broad sense, order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
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Word DNA
TOADS inherits its ancestry from its root, TOAD.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,881)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TOAD · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Scots, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TOADS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TOADS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADOST - 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 TOADS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found TOADS?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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