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SOAK
Definition of SOAK
verb
To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English soken, from Old English socian (“to soak, steep”, literally “to cause to suck (up)”), from Proto-Germanic *sukōną (“to soak”), causative of Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck”). Cognate with Middle Dutch soken (“to cause to suck”). More at suck.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,847)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SOAK · 5 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Middle Dutch.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SOAK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 95, 23 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 95, 23 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SOAK starts with S and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read AKOS - 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 SOAK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SOAK?
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 95 - and most players walked straight past it.
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