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HAWK
Definition of HAWK
noun
A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
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Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English hauk, hauke, hawke, havek, from Old English hafoc, from Proto-West Germanic *habuk, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, controversially derived from Proto-Indo-European *kopuǵos, perhaps ultimately derived from *kap- (“seize”). Cognate with West Frisian hauk, German Low German Haavke, Dutch havik, German Habicht, Swedish hök, Danish høg, Norwegian Bokmål hauk, Norwegian Nynorsk hauk, Faroese heykur, Icelandic haukur, Finnish haukka, Estonian haugas; also Latin capys, capus (“bird of prey”), Albanian gabonjë, shkabë (“eagle”), Russian ко́бец (kóbec, “falcon”), Polish kobuz (“Eurasian Hobby”)).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,201)
How it is built
Same root, HAWK · 14 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Russian and 1 more.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HAWK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HAWK starts with H and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read AHKW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HAWK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found HAWK?
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