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KIRKTON
Definition of KIRKTON
noun
Alternative form of kirktown.
KIRKTOWN
noun
A small town or village in the vicinity of a parish church.
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Where it comes from
By surface analysis, kirk + -ton.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, KIRKTON · 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.
KIRKTON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
KIRKTON starts with K and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read IKKNORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. K appears more than once.
Could you have found KIRKTON?
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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