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BICKER
Definition of BICKER
verb
To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English bikeren (“to attack”), from Middle Dutch bicken (“to stab, thrust, attack”) + -er (frequentative suffix), from Old Dutch *bikken, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjan, from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to smash, break”). See also Old English becca (“pickax”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”), German picken (“to peck, pick at”), Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”); compare also German Low German bickern (“to nibble, gnaw”).
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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.
BICKER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BICKER starts with B and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read BCEIKR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BICKER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found BICKER?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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