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OKTA
Definition of OKTA
noun
One eighth of the total area of the celestial dome; used as a measure of cloudiness (one okta means that one eighth of the sky is obscured, two oktas that one quarter is obscured, and so on).
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Where it comes from
From octa-.
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.
OKTA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 94, 22 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OKTA starts with O and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AKOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start OKTA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OKTA?
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 94 - and most players walked straight past it.
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