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WAKER
Definition of WAKER
adjective
Watchful; vigilant; alert.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English wakyr, from Old English wacor, waccor (“watchful, vigilant”), from Proto-West Germanic *wakr, from Proto-Germanic *wakraz (“awake, watchful”), equivalent to wake + -er. Cognate with Scots wakir (“watchful”), Dutch wakker (“awake”), German wacker (“awake, alert, capable, brave”), Swedish vacker (“wakeful, watchful, fair, comely”). Also precisely cognate with Sanskrit वज्र (vájra, “adamantine”), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wóǵ-ros (“strong, lively”), and therefore a doublet of vajra. Further related through the same Indo-European root to vigil, vigor, and vegetable.
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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.
WAKER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 60 days.
First found by a player on Day 40, 29 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WAKER starts with W and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEKRW - 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.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found WAKER?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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