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ORCA
Definition of ORCA
noun
A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin orca (“tun, cask; whale”), see there for more. Although the origin is obscure, the sometimes-cited association with orcus (“underworld”) is folk-etymology. Doublet of orc.
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.
ORCA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
ORCA starts with O and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ACOR - 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.
Could you have found ORCA?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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