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NORK

/nɔːk/4 letters

Definition of NORK

noun

A woman's breast.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Unknown, originally used in Australia, attested since the 1960s. One theory suggests that the source is Norco Co-operative, a butter manufacturer that featured a cow's udder on package labels, but this is considered dubious.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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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.

NORK in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 2 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
83
First board
107
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 83, 11 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

lilybert

on Day 83, 11 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

NORK
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

NORK starts with N and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read KNOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start NORK

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found NORK?

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 83 - and most players walked straight past it.

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