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TONG
Definition of TONG
noun
An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English tonge (“tongs, fang”), tange, from Old English tange, from Proto-West Germanic *tangu, from Proto-Germanic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”). Cognate with Old Norse tǫng (modern Icelandic töng), Old High German zanga (modern German Zange). Other cognates include Sanskrit दशति (dáśati, “to bite”) and Albanian dang (“bite, nip”).
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.
TONG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
TONG starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GNOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TONG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found TONG?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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