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TROUT
Definition of TROUT
noun
Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “to gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn”). The Internet verb sense originated on BBSes of the 1980s, probably from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972), though that sketch involved a halibut.
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.
TROUT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TROUT starts with T and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ORTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
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 TROUT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TROUT?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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