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PLACK
Definition of PLACK
noun
A coin used in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle Dutch placke (“name of a coin”). Cognate with Old High German pleh, bleh (“a thin leaf of metal, plate”). Compare plaque.
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.
PLACK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PLACK starts with P and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read ACKLP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PLACK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found PLACK?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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