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LARK
Definition of LARK
noun
Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English larke, laverke, from Old English lāwerce, lǣwerce, lāuricæ, from Proto-West Germanic *laiwaʀikā, from Proto-Germanic *laiwazikǭ (compare dialectal West Frisian larts, Dutch leeuwerik, German Lerche), from *laiwaz (borrowed into Finnish leivo, Estonian lõo), of unknown ultimate origin with no definitive cognates outside of Germanic.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LARK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
LARK starts with L and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read AKLR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start LARK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found LARK?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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