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CHETNIK
Definition of CHETNIK
noun
A member of a Serbian royalist army band.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Serbo-Croatian četnik, from četa (“band, group”) + -nik.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CHETNIK · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHETNIK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.
First found by a player on Day 137, 4 October 2026.
Built from these letters
CHETNIK starts with C and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read CEHIKNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found CHETNIK?
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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