The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
CHARK
Definition of CHARK
noun
Charcoal; coke.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
A back-formation from charcoal (interpreted as chark coal).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHARK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 61, 20 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 61, 20 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHARK starts with C and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read ACHKR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CHARK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CHARK?
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 61 - and most players walked straight past it.
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