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TOWHEAD
Definition of TOWHEAD
noun
A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow; the hair of such a person.
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Other senses
TOWHEAD carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A head of white-blond hair resembling tow.
noun
A person with such hair.
noun
A sandbar or low-lying alluvial island in a river, especially one with a stand of trees.
noun
A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow.
Where it comes from
From tow + -head.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, TOW · 18 relatives in the game
TOWHEAD in a sentence
“The towhead was a rattling big distance off, away out there in the middle of the river, but I didn't lose no time; and when I struck the raft at last I was so fagged I would a just laid down to blow and gasp if I could afforded it.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TOWHEAD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 50 boards so far. 85 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TOWHEAD starts with T and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEHOTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found TOWHEAD?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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