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DUCK
Definition of DUCK
verb
To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English ducken, duken, douken (“to duck, plunge under water, submerge”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck”). Related to Scots dulk (“to duck”), Middle Dutch ducken (“to duck”), Low German ducken (“to duck”), German ducken (“to duck”), Danish dukke, dykke (“to dive”). Related also to Scots dook, douk (“to bathe, drench, soak, baptise”), West Frisian dûke (“to plunge, dive”), Dutch duiken (“to dive, plunge, duck”), Low German duken (“to duck, dive, stoop”), German tauchen (“to dive, plunge, immerse, duck”), Swedish dyka (“to dive, submerge”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DUCK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 43 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 10, 30 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DUCK starts with D and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read CDKU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DUCK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found DUCK?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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