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BARKEN
Definition of BARKEN
adjective
Made of bark.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From bark + -en.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BARKEN · 2 relatives 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.
BARKEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 133, 30 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 133, 30 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BARKEN starts with B and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ABEKNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BARKEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BARKEN?
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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