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TURBAN
Definition of TURBAN
noun
A man's headdress made by winding a length of cloth round the head.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French turbant, from Italian turbante, from Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent), from Classical Persian دلبند (dulband), also the root of tulip.
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.
TURBAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 75, 3 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 23, 12 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
TURBAN starts with T and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ABNRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TURBAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found TURBAN?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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