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KNIFE
Definition of KNIFE
noun
A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English knyf, knif, from late Old English cnīf, from Old Norse knífr or Proto-West Germanic *knīb, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz, from *knīpaną (“to pinch”), Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (compare Lithuanian gnýbti, žnýbti (“to pinch”), gnaibis (“pinching”)). Displaced native Middle English sax (“knife”), from Old English seax; and Middle English coutel, qwetyll (“knife”) from Old French coutel. Cognate with Yola kunnife (“knife”), North Frisian knif (“knife”), Dutch knijf (“long pointy knife, poniard”), German Knifte (“rifle; thick slicebread”), German Low German Knief (“knife”), Luxembourgish Knäip (“paring knife”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk kniv (“knife”), Faroese knívur (“knife”), Icelandic hnífur, knífur (“knife”), Swedish knif, kniv (“knife”).
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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.
KNIFE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 41 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
KNIFE starts with K and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EFIKN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start KNIFE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 2
Could you have found KNIFE?
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 2 - and most players walked straight past it.
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