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TROUGH
Definition of TROUGH
noun
A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English trogh, from Old English troh, trog (“a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials”), from Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *drukós, enlargement of *dóru (“tree”). See also West Frisian trôch, Dutch trog, German Trog, Danish trug, Swedish tråg; also Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian տարգալ (targal, “ladle, spoon”). More at tree.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TROUGH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 50 boards so far. 108 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TROUGH starts with T and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read GHORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TROUGH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found TROUGH?
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