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BEATNIK
Definition of BEATNIK
noun
A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Coined by American columnist Herb Caen in 1958. From beat (generation) + -nik (“person who exemplifies or endorses something”). Compare jazznik. The suffix, a cutesy or ironic use of the Russian suffix -ник (-nik), experienced a surge of use in English coinages for nicknames and diminutives after the 1957 Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BEATNIK · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Russian.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BEATNIK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 80 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BEATNIK starts with B and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read ABEIKNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found BEATNIK?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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