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WREAK
Definition of WREAK
verb
To cause harm; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injure; to let out harm.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English wreken, from Old English wrecan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrekan, from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“push, shove, drive, track down”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with Dutch wreken, German rächen, Swedish vräka; cognate via PIE with Latin urgēre (English urge), and distantly cognate with English wreck.
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.
WREAK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 82 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 17, 6 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 17, 6 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WREAK starts with W and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read AEKRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start WREAK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WREAK?
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 17 - and most players walked straight past it.
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