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WINDSHAKE
Definition of WINDSHAKE
noun
A crack in wood caused by the force of wind while the tree was growing.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From wind + shake.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WINDSHAKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 94, 22 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WINDSHAKE starts with W and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ADEHIKNSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WINDSH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WINDSHAKE?
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 94 - and most players walked straight past it.
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