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YORKS

5 letters

Definition of YORKS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative 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

YORKS 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.

YORKS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 151
Its 5 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
40
First board
109
Latest board
33
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 42 days.

First ever to find it

evangeline76

on Day 40, 29 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

YORKS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found YORKS?

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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.

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