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CORK
Definition of CORK
noun
The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English cork (“oak bark, cork”), from Middle Dutch curc (“cork (material or object)”), either from Spanish corcho (“cork (material or object)”) (also corcha or corche) or from Old Spanish alcorque (“cork sole”). Doublet of cortex.
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.
CORK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CORK starts with C and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read CKOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CORK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found CORK?
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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