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GROAK
Definition of GROAK
verb
To stare or look fixedly at someone; esp. of a child or dog in anticipation of receiving food.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unknown. Adapted into English from the Scots groak, growk with an unchanged meaning; groak in Scotland and growk in Ulster. The earliest recorded English usage of this term is as grouk in 1808 (see sense 2).
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.
GROAK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 117, 14 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GROAK starts with G and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read AGKOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found GROAK?
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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.
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