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BURKS

5 letters

Definition of BURKS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of burk

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Rarity score
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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.

BURKS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

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Boards found on
107
First board
13
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

palaver

on Day 107, 4 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BURKS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BURKS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BKRSU - 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.

Could you have found BURKS?

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 107 - and most players walked straight past it.

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