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HORKED

6 letters

Definition of HORKED

verb

simple past and past participle of hork

HORK

verb

To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.

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Word DNA

HORKED inherits its ancestry from its root, HORK.

How it is built

verb

Same root, HORK · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

HORKED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 168
Its 11 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
139
First board
167
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 139, 6 October 2026.

Built from these letters

HORKED
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HORKED starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEHKOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found HORKED?

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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.

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