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CHICANERY
Definition of CHICANERY
noun
Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French chicanerie (“trickery”), from chicaner, from Middle French chicaner, borrowed from Middle Low German schicken, from Old Saxon *skikkian, from Proto-West Germanic *skikkijan (“to order, arrange”). Related to German schicken (“to send, ship”), Middle English skekken (“to send forth, issue”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
29th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.3%
of traced words share this origin (75)
branch · 22.7% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Middle English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHICANERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHICANERY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACCEHINRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start CHICAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CHICANERY?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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