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TORTIOUS
Definition of TORTIOUS
adjective
Wrongful; harmful.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English torcious, from Anglo-Norman torcious. By surface analysis, tort + -ious.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TORTIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TORTIOUS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read IOORSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and O appear more than once.
Could you have found TORTIOUS?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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