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PUNKY
Definition of PUNKY
adjective
Of or pertaining to punk (touchwood); rotted or soft.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From punk + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PUNKY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 56 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PUNKY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read KNPUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found PUNKY?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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