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SNOEK
Definition of SNOEK
noun
An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Afrikaans snoek, from Dutch snoek, from Middle Dutch snoec, from Old Dutch *snuoc. Some senses come from or are influenced by Dutch zeesnoek (“barracuda”, literally “sea pike”), a word that Van Riebeeck applied to the Thyrsites atun. Doublet of snook and possibly a distant doublet of snake.
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.
SNOEK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 89, 17 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 89, 17 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SNOEK starts with S and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read EKNOS - 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.
Words that start SNOEK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SNOEK?
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 89 - and most players walked straight past it.
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