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TORNADOS

/tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪ.dəʊz/8 letters

Definition of TORNADOS

noun

plural of tornado

TORNADO

noun

A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.

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Word DNA

TORNADOS inherits its ancestry from its root, TORNADO.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Latin
  3. Spanish
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.3%

of traced words share this origin (11,259)

How it is built

noun3 syllables

Same root, TORNADO · 4 relatives in the game

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.

TORNADOS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its 15 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards found on
27
First board
152
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.

Built from these letters

TORNADOS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TORNADOS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADNOORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start TORNAD

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TORNADOS?

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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.

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