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TOOTHIES

8 letters

Definition of TOOTHIES

noun

plural of toothie

TOOTHIE

noun

Diminutive of tooth.

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Word DNA

TOOTHIES inherits its ancestry from its root, TOOTH.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (12,066)

How it is built

noun

Same root, TOOTH · 16 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Icelandic, Irish and 15 more.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

TOOTHIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 172
Its one board, across 172 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
166
First board
6
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

owlview

on Day 166, 2 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TOOTHIES
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

TOOTHIES starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EHIOOSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and O appear more than once, including a double letter.

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 TOOTHI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TOOTHIES?

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 166 - and most players walked straight past it.

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