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AMUCK

/əˈmʌk/5 letters

Definition of AMUCK

adverb

Alternative form of amok.

AMOK

adverb

Out of control, especially when armed and dangerous.

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Word DNA

AMUCK inherits its ancestry from its root, AMOK.

Line of descent

  1. Malay
  2. Portuguese
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Malay

Deepest traced root

29th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.3%

of traced words share this origin (225)

Austronesian

branch · 0.4% of traced words

How it is built

adverb2 syllables

Same root, AMOK · 3 relatives in the game

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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.

AMUCK in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 44 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 160
Its 21 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
21
Boards found on
31
First board
158
Latest board
37
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

magpie1

on Day 42, 1 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AMUCK
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

AMUCK starts with A and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read ACKMU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start AMUCK

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AMUCK?

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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.

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