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WARLOCK
Definition of WARLOCK
noun
A male magic-user; a male equivalent of a witch; a wizard.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English warloghe, warlowe, warloȝe, from Old English wǣrloga (“traitor, deceiver”, literally “truce-breaker”), from Proto-West Germanic *wārulogō (“liar”), equivalent to Old English wǣr (“covenant, truce, pact, promise”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁- (“true”); whence also Latin vērus) + loga (“liar”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô, related to Old English lēogan (whence English lie). The hard -ck ending originated in Scottish and Northern English, like the sense "male magic-user" (from the notion that such men were in league with the Devil and had thus broken their baptismal vows / betrayed Christianity). Cognate with Old Saxon wārlogo (“liar, unfaithful or insidious one”). A few writers alternatively propose a derivation from Old Norse varðlokkur (“incantations, charms”, literally “ward songs”), but as the OED notes, this is implausible due to the extreme rarity of the Norse word, the semantic difference, and because forms without hard -k, which are consistent with the Old English etymology (“traitor”), are attested earlier than forms with -k, and forms with -ð- are not attested.
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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.
WARLOCK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 42 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WARLOCK starts with W and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read ACKLORW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WARLOC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
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