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UPLINK
Definition of UPLINK
noun
The portion of a communications link used for the transmission of signals from a ground station to a satellite or to an airborne platform.
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Where it comes from
From up + link.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, UPLINK · 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.
UPLINK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 56 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 93, 21 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
UPLINK starts with U and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read IKLNPU - 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.
Words that start UPLINK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found UPLINK?
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 93 - and most players walked straight past it.
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