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TURTLERS

8 letters

Definition of TURTLERS

noun

plural of turtler

TURTLER

noun

One who fishes for turtles or tortoises.

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Word DNA

TURTLERS inherits its ancestry from its root, TURTLE.

Line of descent

  1. Old Occitan
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Old Occitan

Deepest traced root

47th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.1%

of traced words share this origin (51)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, TURTLE · 8 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old English, Spanish.

Every Old Occitan word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

TURTLERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 175
Its one board, across 175 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
138
First board
37
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 37 days.

First ever to find it

sycron

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TURTLERS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
6
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TURTLERS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ELRRSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and R appear more than once.

Words that start TURTLE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TURTLERS?

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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.

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