How Do You Make HIGHTAILED in Apple Quartiles?

Quick answer

Tiles HI + GH + TAI + LED

Answer HIGHTAILED

Base word HIGHTAIL

Meaning To leave or move away very quickly

Spelling One word

What are the four tiles for HIGHTAILED?

Use:

HI

GH

TAI

LED

Put them together in that order:

HIGHTAILED

That is one of the five four-tile Quartiles in the September 21, 2026 Apple News+ puzzle.

Is HIGHTAILED one word?

Yes.

When HIGHTAILED is the past-tense form of the verb HIGHTAIL, it is written as one word.

The base verb is HIGHTAIL.

The past tense is HIGHTAILED.

What does HIGHTAILED mean?

HIGHTAIL is an informal verb meaning to leave or go somewhere very quickly.

A common phrase is:

hightail it

Example:

They hightailed it out of town.

HIGHTAILED is the past-tense form:

They hightailed it home before the storm.

Why does the spelling look strange?

The word is built from HIGH + TAIL, but the established verb is HIGHTAIL, written as one word.

Adding -ED gives HIGHTAILED.

The Quartiles tiles make the spelling look more unusual because the word is divided into:

HI + GH + TAI + LED

That is a puzzle-specific split, not the normal way the word is broken into meaningful parts.

Is HIGH-TAILED the same word?

Not in this puzzle.

HIGH-TAILED can be read literally as a description involving a high tail.

HIGHTAILED is the past tense of the verb HIGHTAIL.

The September 21 Quartiles answer uses the verb form HIGHTAILED.

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