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GAWK
Definition of GAWK
noun
A cuckoo; any gawky bird.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From a variant of gowk, from Middle English gowke, goke, from Old Norse gaukr (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Germanic *gaukaz (“cuckoo”). Cognate with Danish gøg, Swedish gök, German Gauch, Old English ġēac. Compare also French gauche, and English gawky and gallock.
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.
GAWK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 71 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GAWK starts with G and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read AGKW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GAWK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found GAWK?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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