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TOMB

/tuːm/4 letters

Definition of TOMB

noun

A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Displaced native Old English þrūh. The verb is from Middle English tomben.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

TOMB in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 15 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards found on
20
First board
96
Latest board
32
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

dvet

on Day 20, 9 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TOMB
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TOMB starts with T and ends with B. Sorted, its letters read BMOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start TOMB

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TOMBSTOMBACTOMBAKTOMBALTOMBEDTOMBICTOMBOCTOMBOYTOMBACKTOMBACSTOMBAKSTOMBING

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