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MURKER

6 letters

Definition of MURKER

adjective

comparative form of murk: more murk

MURK

adjective

Dark, murky.

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Word DNA

MURKER inherits its ancestry from its root, MURK.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old Norse
  4. Old English
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,787)

How it is built

adjective

Same root, MURK · 8 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Proto-Slavic, Swedish.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

MURKER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its 2 boards, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
140
First board
153
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

dane

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MURKER
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MURKER starts with M and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EKMRRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.

Could you have found MURKER?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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