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YORKING

7 letters

Definition of YORKING

verb

present participle and gerund of york

YORK

verb

to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman out in this way.

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Word DNA

YORKING inherits its ancestry from its root, YORK.

How it is built

verb

Same root, YORK · 3 relatives in the game

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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.

YORKING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 150
Its 4 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
51
First board
147
Latest board
44
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

esterchlorophyl

on Day 51, 10 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

YORKING
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

YORKING starts with Y and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GIKNORY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found YORKING?

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 51 - and most players walked straight past it.

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