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TURBOFANS
Definition of TURBOFANS
noun
plural of turbofan
noun
A turbojet engine having a (usually ducted) fan that drives a stream of air that partly bypasses the turbojet portion; in high-bypass-ratio types, most of the thrust comes from the bypass portion rather than the turbojet portion, and this can be thought of in simplistic terms as that the turbojet portion drives the fan and the fan propels the aircraft.
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Word DNA
TURBOFANS inherits its ancestry from its root, TURBOFAN.
How it is built
Same root, TURBOFAN · 1 relative 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.
TURBOFANS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TURBOFANS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABFNORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found TURBOFANS?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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