The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SLUNK
Definition of SLUNK
noun
An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From an allusive sense of slink (“to bring forth young prematurely”).
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.
SLUNK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 64 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 22, 11 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SLUNK starts with S and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read KLNSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found SLUNK?
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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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