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TUNIC
Definition of TUNIC
noun
A garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French tunique, from Latin tunica, possibly from Semitic (compare Aramaic [script needed] (kittuna), Hebrew כותנת (kuttoneth, “coat”), English chiton); or from Etruscan. Existed in Old English as tunece; unknown if that term was lost and then reborrowed later. Doublet of tunica.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,977)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TUNIC · 4 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.
TUNIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 85 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TUNIC starts with T and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CINTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TUNIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found TUNIC?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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