The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
CALKINGS
Definition of CALKINGS
noun
plural of calking
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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.
CALKINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CALKINGS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACGIKLNS - 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 CALKIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CALKINGS?
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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.
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