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KNUT

/kəˈnʌt/4 letters

Definition of KNUT

noun

An idle upper-class man about town.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

An alteration of nut.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

KNUT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 42 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 119
Its 27 boards, across 119 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
27
Boards found on
19
First board
117
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

clowngod

on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

KNUT
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

KNUT starts with K and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read KNTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start KNUT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found KNUT?

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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.

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