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DOCKS

/dɒks/5 letters

Definition of DOCKS

noun

plural of dock

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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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

DOCKS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 124
Its one board, across 124 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
121
First board
3
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 121, 18 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

shellyl

on Day 121, 18 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DOCKS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DOCKS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CDKOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start DOCKS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DOCKSIDEDOCKSIDES

Could you have found DOCKS?

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 121 - and most players walked straight past it.

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