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CAUKER

6 letters

Definition of CAUKER

noun

Alternative form of caulker (“alcoholic drink”).

CAULKER

noun

A person who caulks various structures (as ships) and certain types of piping.

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Word DNA

CAUKER inherits its ancestry from its root, CAUK.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.1%

of traced words share this origin (1,238)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, CAUK · 1 relative in the game

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

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

CAUKER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 153
Its one board, across 153 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
13
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

poppy15

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CAUKER
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start CAUKER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CAUKER?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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