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WORKADAY

/ˈwɜːkədeɪ/8 letters

Definition of WORKADAY

adjective

Suitable for everyday use.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Middle English werkedei, from Old Norse virkr dagr (“working day”). Cognate to later workday; see work and day. Used in adjective sense from 16th century. By surface analysis, work + -a- + day. First attested in c. 1200.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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

WORKADAY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 112
Its 13 boards, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
26
First board
109
Latest board
37
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

wickette

on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WORKADAY
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

WORKADAY starts with W and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AADKORWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start WORKAD

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WORKADAY?

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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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