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PINKO
Definition of PINKO
noun
A socialist, particularly one who is not completely communist.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pink + -o, a variation of red (“Communist”, noun), as pink is a lighter, more diluted form.
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.
PINKO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 62, 21 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 62, 21 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
PINKO starts with P and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read IKNOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found PINKO?
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 62 - and most players walked straight past it.
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