Word of the day · Friday, October 23, 2026

raik

noun and verb

In Scots, a journey or a trip, especially one of several made carrying a load, and also a stretch of pasture that animals range over. As a verb, to roam or wander.

Where it comes from

Scots and northern English, related to Old Norse reika, to wander.

Worth knowing

A sheep raik was the run of hill ground a flock could graze. The word survives in Scottish place names and in older farming records.

By the letters

• 4letters
• 2vowels (A E I O U)
• Kuncommon letters
• 4different letters

Playing it

RAIK is a quiet four-letter K word with the vowel pair AI in the middle. It is easy to miss because it looks like a misspelling of RAKE.

Anagrams

Words that use exactly the same letters as RAIK. See anagram.

• krai
• raki

Hooks

One letter added to make a new word (what is a hook), in front: TRAIK; at the end: RAIKS.

One letter away

Words you get by changing a single letter, the steps of a word ladder.

• faik
• haik
• kaik
• laik
• maik
• naik
• paik
• rack
• raia
• raid
• rail
• rain
• rait
• rank
• rark

In Unsaid

RAIK was word of the day number 5 in Unsaid, a falling-letter word game where every player gets the same word on the same date. As a word it scores 270 points. Under the current rules, spelling it as the word of the day is worth a bonus of 8,540 reading down or 6,405 reading across, before any streak. How the bonus works.