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SPOKE
Definition of SPOKE
noun
A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikō. Compare Scots spaik (“spoke”), Dutch spaak and English spike.
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.
SPOKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 89, 17 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SPOKE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EKOPS - 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 SPOKE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found SPOKE?
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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