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COKE
Definition of COKE
noun
Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
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Where it comes from
The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). If so, cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).
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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.
COKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 61, 20 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 61 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
COKE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEKO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COKE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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