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GROAKS
Definition of GROAKS
Wiktionary has no entry for GROAKS itself. This is its base word, GROAK.
verb
To stare or look fixedly at someone; esp. of a child or dog in anticipation of receiving food.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for GROAK.
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).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Scots
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
24th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (354)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GROAK · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GROAKS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 163, 30 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 171, 7 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 163, 30 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GROAKS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AGKORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found GROAKS?
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 163 - and most players walked straight past it.
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