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CLERKS
Definition of CLERKS
noun
plural of clerk
noun
One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker. A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market. A law clerk. An employee at a hotel who deals with guests. The chief legal advisor of a legislature or legislative chamber, who is usually also responsible for keeping minutes of sittings.
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Word DNA
CLERKS inherits its ancestry from its root, CLERK.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.2%
of traced words share this origin (9,517)
branch · 12.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CLERK · 8 relatives 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.
CLERKS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CLERKS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEKLRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CLERKS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found CLERKS?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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