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TROMBONED
Definition of TROMBONED
verb
simple past and past participle of trombone
noun
A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
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Word DNA
TROMBONED inherits its ancestry from its root, TROMBONE.
Line of descent
- Italian
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.7%
of traced words share this origin (1,377)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TROMBONE · 3 relatives 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.
TROMBONED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 143, 10 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 143, 10 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TROMBONED starts with T and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDEMNOORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start TROMBO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TROMBONED?
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