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CLUCKED

/klʌkt/7 letters

Definition of CLUCKED

verb

simple past and past participle of cluck

CLUCK

noun

The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.

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Word DNA

CLUCKED inherits its ancestry from its root, CLUCK.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.8%

of traced words share this origin (4,064)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb1 syllable

Same root, CLUCK · 8 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Scots, Swedish.

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
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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.

CLUCKED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 174
Its 2 boards, across 174 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
137
First board
139
Latest board
2
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 35 days.

First ever to find it

ccrn482157

on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CLUCKED
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CLUCKED starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CCDEKLU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.

Words that start CLUCKE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CLUCKED?

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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