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GINK

/ɡɪŋk/4 letters

Definition of GINK

noun

A guy, a fellow, especially a foolish, unworldly, or socially inept man; a goof.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Unknown but possibly from similar senses of kink or geck. Cf. geek.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

GINK in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 8 boards so far.

Day 1Day 107
Its 8 boards, across 107 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
8
Boards found on
57
First board
107
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 57, 16 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

personalbeavis

on Day 57, 16 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

GINK
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GINK starts with G and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read GIKN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start GINK

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

GINKSGINKGOGINKGOSGINKGOES

Could you have found GINK?

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 57 - and most players walked straight past it.

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