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SPARKY
Definition of SPARKY
adjective
Lively and animated.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From spark + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SPARKY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SPARKY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SPARKY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AKPRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found SPARKY?
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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