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DOCK
Definition of DOCK
noun
Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English dokke, from Old English docce, from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ (compare Old Danish dokke (“water-dock”), West Flemish dokke, dokkebladeren (“coltsfoot, butterbur”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“dark”) (compare Latvian duga (“scum, slime on water”)).
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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.
DOCK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 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 112, 9 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
DOCK starts with D and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read CDKO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DOCK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found DOCK?
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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