The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
DARBUKA
Definition of DARBUKA
noun
A type of goblet drum, originating in the Middle East and North Africa.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Arabic دَرْبُوكَة (darbūka).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Arabic
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,156)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DARBUKA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.
First found by a player on Day 148, 15 October 2026.
Built from these letters
DARBUKA starts with D and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AABDKRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start DARBUK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DARBUKA?
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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER