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KORE

/ˈkɔːɹeɪ/4 letters

Definition of KORE

noun

An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

KORE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 6 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
51
First board
101
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

meera

on Day 51, 10 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start KORE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

KORESKOREROKOREROSKOREROEDKOREROING

Could you have found KORE?

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 51 - and most players walked straight past it.

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