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TUFFES
Definition of TUFFES
Wiktionary has no entry for TUFFES itself. This is its base word, TUFFE.
noun
Plural of tuffe, an old spelling of tuff: a porous rock formed from compacted volcanic ash.
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for TUFFE.
From French tuffe, tuf, from Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus. Doublet of tufa.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,696)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TUFF · 2 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.
TUFFES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TUFFES starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EFFSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found TUFFES?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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