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PINK
Definition of PINK
noun
A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Origin uncertain; perhaps from Dutch pinken (“to blink”) or the English verb pink from the same source. Perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked. An earlier word for similar flesh-like colors, mostly displaced by pink, was incarnation ([1300s]; see Etymonline) and carnation.
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.
PINK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PINK starts with P and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read IKNP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PINK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found PINK?
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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