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WAULK
Definition of WAULK
verb
to make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English walken, from Old English wealcian (“to roll up; muffle up”), from Proto-West Germanic *walkōn, from Proto-Germanic *walkōną (“to roll about; full (cloth)”). Cognate with Scots waulk (“to full”), Dutch walken (“to full”), German walken (“to full”), Danish valke (“to full”), Swedish valka (“to full”). Doublet of walk.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,750)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WAULK · 9 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Scots, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WAULK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 46 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WAULK starts with W and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read AKLUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WAULK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found WAULK?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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