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SMAAKED

7 letters

Definition of SMAAKED

verb

simple past and past participle of smaak

SMAAK

verb

To like; to be attracted to.

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Word DNA

SMAAKED inherits its ancestry from its root, SMAAK.

Line of descent

  1. Afrikaans
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Afrikaans

Deepest traced root

30th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

0.2%

of traced words share this origin (72)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, SMAAK · 2 relatives in the game

Every Afrikaans word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SMAAKED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 145
Its one board, across 145 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
136
First board
9
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First ever to find it

katabasisSUPPORTER

on Day 136, 3 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SMAAKED
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SMAAKED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AADEKMS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once, including a double letter.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found SMAAKED?

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 136 - and most players walked straight past it.

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