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NARC
Definition of NARC
noun
A police officer or federal agent assigned to or engaging in illegal narcotics control.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Clipping of narcotics (control) officer.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, NARC · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NARC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
NARC starts with N and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read ACNR - 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 NARC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found NARC?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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