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TUSCHE
Definition of TUSCHE
noun
A black liquid used in lithography for drawing and painting and in etching and the silk-screen process as a resist.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Tusche, from tuschen, from French toucher.
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.
TUSCHE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 89, 17 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 89, 17 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TUSCHE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEHSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TUSCHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TUSCHE?
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 89 - and most players walked straight past it.
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