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SPELUNKER
Definition of SPELUNKER
noun
One who explores caves; one who spelunks.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
SPELUNKER carries 2 further meanings.
noun
One who explores caves chiefly as a hobby; a caver.
noun
a person who explores caves
Where it comes from
From then-obsolete spelunk (noun) + -er. Coined by New England cave explorer Roger Charles Johnson in the 1930s.
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.
SPELUNKER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 217 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SPELUNKER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EEKLNPRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start SPELUN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found SPELUNKER?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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