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NUNATAKS
Definition of NUNATAKS
noun
plural of nunatak
NUNATAK
noun
A mountain top or rocky element of a ridge that is surrounded by glacial ice but is not covered by ice; a peak protruding from the surface ice sheet.
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Word DNA
NUNATAKS inherits its ancestry from its root, NUNATAK.
How it is built
Same root, NUNATAK · 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.
NUNATAKS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NUNATAKS starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAKNNSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and A appear more than once.
Words that start NUNATA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NUNATAKS?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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