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GROKE
Definition of GROKE
verb
Alternative spelling 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.
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 (348)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GROKE · 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.
GROKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
Built from these letters
GROKE starts with G and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EGKOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found GROKE?
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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.
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