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SWANK
Definition of SWANK
adjective
Fashionably elegant, posh.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From dialectal swank (“to strut, behave ostentatiously”), perhaps from an unrecorded Old English root, derived from Proto-Germanic *swankijaną (“to cause to sway, swing”) or from Proto-Germanic *swankaz (“lithe, bendsome, slender”), related to the Scots swank and the Middle High German swanken, modern German schwanken (“to sway”).
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.
SWANK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 54 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SWANK starts with S and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read AKNSW - 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 SWANK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found SWANK?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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