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TONNEAU
Definition of TONNEAU
noun
The rear body or compartment of some types of motor vehicle, especially one containing seats for passengers.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French tonneau.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,118)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
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.
TONNEAU in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TONNEAU starts with T and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read AENNOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start TONNEA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TONNEAU?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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