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TONGS
Definition of TONGS
noun
An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English tonges, equivalent to tong (“tool for manipulating things in a fire”) + -s.
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.
TONGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 45, 4 July 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 45, 4 July 2026.
Built from these letters
TONGS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read GNOST - 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 TONGS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TONGS?
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 45 - and most players walked straight past it.
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