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TUSKY

/ˈtʌs.ki/5 letters

Definition of TUSKY

adjective

Having tusks, especially prominent tusks.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English tusky, equivalent to tusk + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,109)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjective2 syllablescompound

Same root, TUSKY · 1 relative in the game

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

TUSKY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 15 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards found on
58
First board
156
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 58, 17 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

emzin

on Day 58, 17 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TUSKY
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found TUSKY?

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 58 - and most players walked straight past it.

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