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TYMPANS
Definition of TYMPANS
noun
plural of tympan
noun
A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.
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Word DNA
TYMPANS inherits its ancestry from its root, TYMPAN.
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,912)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TYMPAN · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TYMPANS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 50, 9 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TYMPANS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AMNPSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TYMPAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 50
Could you have found TYMPANS?
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 50 - and most players walked straight past it.
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