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TONGUED
Definition of TONGUED
adjective
Resembling a tongue.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English tonged, tunged, equivalent to tongue + -ed. Compare Old English ġetynġe (“skilled with speech, talkative, eloquent”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.2%
of traced words share this origin (4,995)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TONGUE · 6 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TONGUED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 52 boards so far. 85 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 20, 9 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TONGUED starts with T and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEGNOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TONGUE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found TONGUED?
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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