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TOMBACKS
Definition of TOMBACKS
Wiktionary has no entry for TOMBACKS itself. This is its base word, TOMBACK.
noun
Archaic form of tombak.
TOMBAK
noun
A type of goblet drum used heavily in Persian music.
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Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TOMBACKS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TOMBACKS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABCKMOST - 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.
Words that start TOMBAC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TOMBACKS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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