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THUNK

/θʌŋk/5 letters

Definition of THUNK

verb

past participle of think

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

By analogy with past participles ending in "-unk", such as drunk and sunk.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

THUNK in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 122 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 113
Its 27 boards, across 113 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
27
Boards found on
13
First board
113
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 113, 10 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

alanaborkon

on Day 13, 2 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

THUNK
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start THUNK

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found THUNK?

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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.

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