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NECK
Definition of NECK
noun
The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (“neck, nape”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnakkō, from Proto-Germanic *hnakkô (“nape, neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *knog-, *kneg- (“back of the head, nape, neck”). Cognate with Scots nek (“neck”), North Frisian neek, neeke, Nak (“neck”), Saterland Frisian Näkke (“neck”), West Frisian nekke (“neck”), Dutch nek (“neck”), German Low German Nack (“neck”), German Nacken (“nape of the neck”), Danish nakke (“neck”), Swedish nacke (“nape of the neck”), Icelandic hnakki (“neck”), Tocharian A kñuk (“neck, nape”). Possibly a mutated variant of *kneug/k (compare Old English hnocc (“hook, penis”), Welsh cnwch (“joint, knob”), Latvian knaūķis (“dwarf”). Doublet of nek. More at nook. Displaced halse (“neck, throat”) and swire (“neck”).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NECK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 97, 25 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 97, 25 August 2026.
Built from these letters
NECK starts with N and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read CEKN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start NECK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NECK?
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