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TOUCHPADS
Definition of TOUCHPADS
noun
plural of touchpad
noun
A flat surface which is sensitive to touch, used mostly in laptop computers to control an on-screen cursor.
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Word DNA
TOUCHPADS inherits its ancestry from its root, TOUCHPAD.
How it is built
Same root, TOUCHPAD · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TOUCHPADS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 128, 25 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 128, 25 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TOUCHPADS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDHOPSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TOUCHP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TOUCHPADS?
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 128 - and most players walked straight past it.
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