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DINKUMS
Definition of DINKUMS
Wiktionary has no entry for DINKUMS itself. This is its base word, DINKUM.
adjective
Genuine, true, honest, on the level.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for DINKUM.
Unknown. Earliest recorded use in the phrase fair dinkum in 1879, from Australia. Also recorded (slightly later) from Derbyshire and Lincolnshire dialect. Perhaps related to Gloucestershire dialect ding (“to work hard”).
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.
DINKUMS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 39 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 67, 26 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DINKUMS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DIKMNSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found DINKUMS?
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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.
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