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CHUKKER
Definition of CHUKKER
noun
Any of the six playing periods, each 7½ minutes long, of a game of polo.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Hindi चक्कर (cakkar), from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra). Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, cycle, cyclus, kike, and wheel.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
14th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.8%
of traced words share this origin (247)
branch · 1.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CHUKKER · 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.
CHUKKER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHUKKER starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CEHKKRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. K appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found CHUKKER?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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