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JOKE
Definition of JOKE
noun
An amusing story.
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Where it comes from
From Latin iocus (“joke, jest, pastime”), from Proto-Italic *jokos (“word, (playful?) saying”), from Proto-Indo-European *yokos (“word, utterance”), from ultimate root Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak, utter”) (of which distant cognates include Proto-Celtic *yextis (“language”) (Breton yezh (“language”) and Welsh iaith (“language”)) and German Beichte (“confession”)). Cognate with French jeu, Italian gioco, Portuguese jogo, Spanish juego, Romanian joc, English Yule, Danish Jule, Norwegian Bokmål Jul, Swedish Jul, and Norwegian Nynorsk jol.
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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.
JOKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 73, 1 August 2026.
Built from these letters
JOKE starts with J and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EJKO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start JOKE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found JOKE?
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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.
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