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ASKER

/ˈɑːsk.ə/5 letters

Definition of ASKER

noun

Someone who asks a question.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English askere. By surface analysis, ask + -er.

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

7.6%

of traced words share this origin (2,019)

Germanic

branch · 22.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound-er

Same root, ASK · 3 relatives in the game

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

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ASKER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 135
Its one board, across 135 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
133
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 133, 30 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

mersenne

on Day 133, 30 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

6 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start ASKER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ASKERS

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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 133 - and most players walked straight past it.

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