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TOKEN
Definition of TOKEN
noun
Something serving as an expression of something else.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English token, taken, from Old English tācn (“sign, symbol”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikn, from Proto-Germanic *taikną (“indicator, symbol, sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show, instruct, teach”) with Germanic *k rather than *h by Kluge's law. Cognate with Scots takin, taiken (“token, sign”), Saterland Frisian Teken (“sign, symbol”), West Frisian teken (“sign, mark, symbol”), Dutch teken (“sign, indication, symbol”), German Low German Teken (“sign, symbol”), German Zeichen (“sign, token”), Danish tegn (“sign, token, character”), Swedish tecken (“sign, indication”), Faroese tekn, tekin (“mark, sign, signal”), Icelandic teikn (“sign, omen”), Icelandic tákn (“symbol”). The verb is from Middle English toknen, from Old English tācnian.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TOKEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TOKEN starts with T and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EKNOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TOKEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found TOKEN?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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