The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
TUNG
Definition of TUNG
noun
Obsolete spelling of tongue, both as language and as part of the body.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English tonge, from Old English tung, tunge (“tongue, language”), from Proto-West Germanic *tungā, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”); along with Dutch tong, German Zunge, Swedish tunga, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.
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.
TUNG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 41 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TUNG starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GNTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TUNG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found TUNG?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER