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DRECKS
Definition of DRECKS
Wiktionary has no entry for DRECKS itself. This is its base word, DRECK.
noun
Trash; rubbish; useless or worthless stuff.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for DRECK.
From Yiddish דרעק (drek, “dirt, crap”), from Middle High German drek, from Old High German *threc (in mūsthrec), from Proto-West Germanic *þraki, from Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz. Compare Cimbrian drèkh (“excrement, manure”), Dutch drek (“dung; semi-liquid filth; mud”), German Dreck (“dirt; filth”), Latin stercus (“dung, manure”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Proto-Germanic
- Yiddish
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (981)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DRECK · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Latin.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DRECKS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 51 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 52, 11 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 52, 11 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DRECKS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CDEKRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DRECKS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 52
Could you have found DRECKS?
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 52 - and most players walked straight past it.
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