The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
TRANKED
Definition of TRANKED
verb
simple past and past participle of trank
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
TRANKED inherits its ancestry from its root, TRANK.
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,269)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TRANK · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TRANKED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 147, 14 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 147, 14 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TRANKED starts with T and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEKNRT - 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.
Could you have found TRANKED?
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 147 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER