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TUMBLE
Definition of TUMBLE
noun
A fall, especially end over end.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English tumblen (“to fall over and over again, tumble”), frequentative of Middle English tumben (“to fall, leap, dance”), from Old English tumbian, from Proto-West Germanic *tumbōn, tūmōn, from Proto-Germanic *tumbōną, tūmōną (“to turn, rotate”). Cognate with Middle Dutch tumelen (whence Dutch tuimelen), Middle Low German tumelen, tummelen, German taumeln, Danish tumle, Swedish tumla, tumbla (“to tumble”), Faroese tumla, tumbla (“to walk heavily and noisily, stagger”).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TUMBLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TUMBLE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BELMTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TUMBLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found TUMBLE?
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