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COLICKY
Definition of COLICKY
adjective
Of, pertaining to, or suffering from colic.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From colic + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, COLIC · 5 relatives 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.
COLICKY 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 33 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COLICKY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CCIKLOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start COLICK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COLICKY?
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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