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BLICKERS

8 letters

Definition of BLICKERS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of blicker

BLICKER

verb

To flicker, to shine or reflect light intermittently.

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Word DNA

BLICKERS inherits its ancestry from its root, BLICKER.

How it is built

verbcompound-er

Its etymology also names Middle English.

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

BLICKERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its 2 boards, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
158
First board
169
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 158, 25 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 169, 5 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

rubymiene

on Day 158, 25 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BLICKERS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BLICKERS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BCEIKLRS - 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 BLICKE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BLICKERS?

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 158 - and most players walked straight past it.

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