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CACKY
Definition of CACKY
adjective
Characterized by or pertaining to excrement.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From cack + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CACKY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.
Built from these letters
CACKY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACCKY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Could you have found CACKY?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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