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NOOKIE
Definition of NOOKIE
noun
Sex or other sexual activity, especially if illicit.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Possibly from Dutch neuken (“to fuck”). Compare cognate and synonymous German Low German nöken, nucken.
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.
NOOKIE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 89, 17 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 89, 17 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NOOKIE starts with N and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIKNOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start NOOKIE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NOOKIE?
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 89 - and most players walked straight past it.
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