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WAUKING
Definition of WAUKING
verb
present participle and gerund of wauk
WAULK · via wauk
verb
to make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, WAUK · 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.
WAUKING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 77, 5 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 77, 5 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WAUKING starts with W and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGIKNUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found WAUKING?
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 77 - and most players walked straight past it.
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