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TURKEY
Definition of TURKEY
noun
The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Clipping of turkey-cock and turkey-hen, originally denoting the guinea fowl, an African bird that was first imported to Europe through Turkey, but there is some controversy over the origin. The word was then transferred to the superficially similar North American bird Meleagris gallopavo.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, TURKEY · 1 relative 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.
TURKEY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TURKEY starts with T and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EKRTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found TURKEY?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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