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TROWEL
Definition of TROWEL
noun
A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English trowell, trouel, truel, from Middle French truelle, from Late Latin truella, from Classical Latin trulla, the diminutive of trua (“ladle”). Doublet of trullo.
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.
TROWEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 53 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 10, 30 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TROWEL starts with T and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ELORTW - 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 TROWEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found TROWEL?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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