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TONGUELESS
Definition of TONGUELESS
adjective
Having no tongue. Having no tongue whether through its normal nature, because of birth defect, or because of amputation.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English tongeles, tunglees, equivalent to tongue + -less. Cognate with Old Norse tungulauss (“tongueless”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
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 (5,164)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Old Norse.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TONGUELESS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 46 days.
Built from these letters
TONGUELESS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEGLNOSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and S appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start TONGUE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TONGUELESS?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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