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THANKYOU

8 letters

Definition of THANKYOU

noun

Alternative spelling of thank-you.

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Word DNA

THANKYOU inherits its ancestry from its root, THANK.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,554)

How it is built

noun

Same root, THANK · 7 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, Yiddish.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

THANKYOU in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 163
Its 4 boards, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
67
First board
160
Latest board
53
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

pendragon

on Day 67, 26 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

THANKYOU
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

THANKYOU starts with T and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read AHKNOTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start THANKY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found THANKYOU?

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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.

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