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SCHNOOK
Definition of SCHNOOK
noun
A person who is easily taken advantage of.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Yiddish שנוק (shnuk, “person easily imposed upon or cheated”).
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.
SCHNOOK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 103, 31 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 103, 31 August 2026.
Built from these letters
SCHNOOK starts with S and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read CHKNOOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start SCHNOO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCHNOOK?
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 103 - and most players walked straight past it.
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