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SILLOCK
Definition of SILLOCK
noun
A pollock or a coalfish, sometimes especially a young coalfish.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From sill (“newly hatched young of fish, fry”) + -ock, ultimately from Old Norse síl, síld (“herring”), whence also dialectal Swedish sil (“the young of fish, fry”) and Norwegian sil (“sand-eel”). More at sile.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old Norse
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
14th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1%
of traced words share this origin (834)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SILLOCK · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Norwegian, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SILLOCK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SILLOCK starts with S and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read CIKLLOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found SILLOCK?
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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.
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