The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HOKAS
Definition of HOKAS
Wiktionary has no entry for HOKAS itself. This is its base word, HOKA.
noun
Synonym of red codling.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for HOKA.
From Māori hoka.
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.
HOKAS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 94, 22 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HOKAS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AHKOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found HOKAS?
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 94 - and most players walked straight past it.
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