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TUSH

/tʌʃ/4 letters

Definition of TUSH

noun

A tusk.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English tusshe, tusche, tussch, tossche, tosch, from Old English tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Doublet of tusk.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,821)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Same root, TUSH · 4 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Germanic 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.

TUSH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 162
Its 25 boards, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
25
Boards found on
47
First board
152
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

anja

on Day 47, 6 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TUSH
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TUSH starts with T and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read HSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start TUSH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TUSH?

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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.

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