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TYMBAL
Definition of TYMBAL
noun
One of a pair of specialised sound-producing structures located below each side of the anterior abdominal region of various species of cicada.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Variant of timbale, from French timbale.
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.
TYMBAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 77, 5 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 77, 5 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TYMBAL starts with T and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ABLMTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found TYMBAL?
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 77 - and most players walked straight past it.
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