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PINKED
Definition of PINKED
verb
simple past and past participle of pink
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Other senses
PINKED carries 3 further meanings.
Pierced or worked with small holes, sometimes showing a lining of another color; reticulated; scalloped.
adjective
Pierced with small holes; worked in eyelets; scalloped on the edge.
verb
Simple past tense and past participle of pink.
Word DNA
PINKED inherits its ancestry from its root, PINK.
Line of descent
- Dutch
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
16th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.9%
of traced words share this origin (685)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PINK · 19 relatives 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.
PINKED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 115 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 7, 28 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PINKED starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEIKNP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found PINKED?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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