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GROK
Definition of GROK
verb
To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.
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Where it comes from
Coined ex nihilo by American author and engineer Robert A. Heinlein in 1961 in his novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein invented the word for his fictitious Martian language. It is described as meaning "to drink" and, figuratively, "to drink in all available aspects of reality", "to become one with the observed". William Tenn asked Heinlein if it could have been inspired by the term griggo, which featured in Tenn's "Venus and the Seven Sexes" (1949); Heinlein "looked startled, then thought about it for a long time (and) shrugged, (saying) 'It's possible, very possible.'"
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, GROK · 2 relatives 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.
GROK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 47 boards so far. 161 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 8, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GROK starts with G and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read GKOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GROK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found GROK?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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