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DESK
Definition of DESK
noun
A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English deske, desque, from Medieval Latin desca, modified from Old Italian desco, from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, disc, discus, dish, disk, and diskos. See also German Tisch, "table".
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.
DESK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
DESK starts with D and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read DEKS - 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 DESK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found DESK?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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