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TROUGHLIKE
Definition of TROUGHLIKE
adjective
Resembling or characteristic of a trough.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From trough + -like.
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.
TROUGHLIKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 94, 22 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 94, 22 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TROUGHLIKE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EGHIKLORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TROUGH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TROUGHLIKE?
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 94 - and most players walked straight past it.
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