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DICKTY
Definition of DICKTY
noun
An upper-class black.
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Where it comes from
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Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DICKTY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 136, 3 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DICKTY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CDIKTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found DICKTY?
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 136 - and most players walked straight past it.
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