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TUMEFY
Definition of TUMEFY
verb
To cause to swell.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French tuméfier, from Latin tumefaciō, ultimately from tumeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tum-éh₁- (“to be swelling”), stative stem of *tum- (“to swell”).
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.
TUMEFY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 78, 6 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 116, 13 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 78, 6 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TUMEFY starts with T and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EFMTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found TUMEFY?
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 78 - and most players walked straight past it.
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