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WAULKS
Definition of WAULKS
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of waulk
verb
to make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating.
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Word DNA
WAULKS inherits its ancestry from its root, WAULK.
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 (3,847)
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.
WAULKS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WAULKS starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AKLSUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found WAULKS?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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