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SARKY

/sɑɹkiː/5 letters

Definition of SARKY

adjective

Synonym of sarcastic.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From sarc (“sarcasm”) + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

SARKY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its one board, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
93
First board
9
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First ever to find it

chrisluv

on Day 93, 21 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SARKY
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SARKY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AKRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found SARKY?

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 93 - and most players walked straight past it.

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