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TRACK
Definition of TRACK
noun
A mark left by something that has passed along.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English trak, tracke, from Old French trac (“track of horses, trail, trace”), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic source, either Old Norse traðk ("a track; path; trodden spot"; > Icelandic traðk (“a track; path; tread”), Faroese traðk (“track; tracks”), Norwegian tråkke (“to trample”)) or from Middle Dutch trec, *trac, treck ("line, row, series"; > Dutch trek (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)), German Low German Treck (“a draught; movement; passage; flow”). See tread, trek.
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.
TRACK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 3, 24 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 3, 24 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TRACK starts with T and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read ACKRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TRACK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 3
Could you have found TRACK?
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 3 - and most players walked straight past it.
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