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WOKE

/wəʊk/4 letters

Definition of WOKE

adjective

Awake: conscious and not asleep.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Shortened from woken or woken up, or derived from dialectal use of woke (past participle of wake). The sense of being aware of social injustice dates to at least the 1930s. The derogatory use has been most commonly used as of the 2020s.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

WOKE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 53 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 110
Its 25 boards, across 110 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
25
Boards found on
2
First board
108
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 2, 23 May 2026.

Built from these letters

WOKE
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

WOKE starts with W and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EKOW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start WOKE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WOKE?

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 2 - and most players walked straight past it.

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