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PLONK

/plɒŋk/5 letters

Definition of PLONK

interjection

The sound made by something solid landing.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PLONK in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 70 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 111
Its 27 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
27
Boards found on
8
First board
110
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.

Built from these letters

PLONK
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PLONK starts with P and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read KLNOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start PLONK

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PLONK?

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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