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CLOCK
Definition of CLOCK
noun
Any device or mechanism that enables time to be measured or regulated.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
First use appears c. 1370. From Middle English clokke, clok, cloke (“clock”), from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell, clock, cloak”), probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch (“bell”), Old Irish cloc (“bell, clock”)), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)). Cognate with Old English clucge (“bell”), Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell, clock”), Dutch klok (“clock, bell”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke (“bell”), Danish and Norwegian klokke (“clock, bell”), Faroese klokka (“clock, bell”), Icelandic klukka (“clock, bell”), Swedish klocka (“clock, bell”), Asturian llueca (“cowbell”), Galician and Portuguese choca (“cowbell”), Doublet of cloak and cloche. "Seed head of a dandelion" sense from a children's game in which one supposedly tells the time by counting the number of puffs taken to blow away all the seeds, each puff representing one hour of the day.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
7 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (1,002)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CLOCK · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Old English, Portuguese, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CLOCK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CLOCK starts with C and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read CCKLO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start CLOCK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CLOCK?
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