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BOYCHICK

8 letters

Definition of BOYCHICK

noun

Alternative form of boychik.

BOYCHIK

noun

Term of endearment for a young boy, or a young man.

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Word DNA

BOYCHICK inherits its ancestry from its root, BOYCHIK.

Line of descent

  1. Russian
  2. Yiddish
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Russian

Deepest traced root

20th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.5%

of traced words share this origin (376)

Slavic

branch · 0.7% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, BOYCHIK · 2 relatives in the game

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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.

BOYCHICK 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
137
First board
140
Latest board
3
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.

First found by a player on Day 137, 4 October 2026.

Built from these letters

BOYCHICK
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BOYCHICK starts with B and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read BCCHIKOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.

Words that start BOYCHI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BOYCHICK?

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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.

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