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TOWER
Definition of TOWER
noun
A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English tour, tur, tor, from Old English tūr, tor, torr ("tower; rock"; > English tor) and Old French tour, toer, tor; both from Latin turris (“a tower”), Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) (Hesychius), τύρσις (túrsis). Displaced native Middle English stepel for the general sense of "tower". Compare Scots tour, towr, towre (“tower”), West Frisian toer (“tower”), Dutch toren (“tower”), German Turm (“tower”), Danish tårn (“tower”), Swedish torn (“tower”), Icelandic turn (“tower”), Welsh tŵr. Doublet of tor, tourelle, and turret.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,240)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TOW · 18 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, German, Icelandic, Scots, Swedish, Welsh.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TOWER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TOWER starts with T and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EORTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TOWER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found TOWER?
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