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DOCKED
Definition of DOCKED
verb
simple past and past participle 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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Word DNA
DOCKED inherits its ancestry from its root, DOCK.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,787)
How it is built
Same root, DOCK · 12 relatives in the game
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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.
DOCKED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.
First found by a player on Day 141, 8 October 2026.
Built from these letters
DOCKED starts with D and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDDEKO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D appears more than once.
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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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.
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