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MORKIN
Definition of MORKIN
noun
An animal that has died of disease or by mischance.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Probably from mort + -kin (compare mortling); or from Old French mortekine, a variant of mortecine, from Medieval Latin morticinus. Compare also Swedish murken (“putrefied”), Icelandic morkinn (“putrid”).
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.
MORKIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 56, 15 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 65 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 56, 15 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MORKIN starts with M and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read IKMNOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MORKIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 56
Could you have found MORKIN?
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 56 - and most players walked straight past it.
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