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PLONKY
Definition of PLONKY
adjective
Chiefly of pianos: having an unappealing, thudding sound.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From plonk (“(noun) sound of something solid landing; (verb) to set or toss (something) down carelessly”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’)..
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.
PLONKY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 77, 5 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 77, 5 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
PLONKY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read KLNOPY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found PLONKY?
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 77 - and most players walked straight past it.
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