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SPANK
Definition of SPANK
verb
To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Uncertain. Possibly imitative, or perhaps a special use of Etymology 2 (below) in the sense of a horse stamping its foot against the ground. There is no evidence of a relation with Portuguese espancar (“to batter, strike”).
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.
SPANK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPANK starts with S and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read AKNPS - 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.
Words that start SPANK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found SPANK?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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