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FOLK
Definition of FOLK
noun
A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foulk, West Frisian folk, Dutch volk, German Low German and German Volk, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish folk, Faroese and Icelandic fólk. Doublet of volk.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,843)
How it is built
Same root, FOLK · 14 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FOLK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FOLK starts with F and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read FKLO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FOLK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found FOLK?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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