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TOURMALINES
Definition of TOURMALINES
noun
plural of tourmaline
noun
A complex black or dark-coloured borosilicate mineral, compounded with various chemical elements and considered a semi-precious stone.
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Word DNA
TOURMALINES inherits its ancestry from its root, TOURMALINE.
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,103)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TOURMALINE · 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.
TOURMALINES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 51 boards so far. 68 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TOURMALINES starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEILMNORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TOURMAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found TOURMALINES?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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