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DUCKS

/dʌks/5 letters

Definition of DUCKS

noun

plural of duck

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

DUCKS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 12 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
8
First board
105
Latest board
31
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.

Built from these letters

DUCKS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DUCKS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CDKSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start DUCKS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DUCKSHOVEDUCKSHOVEDDUCKSHOVERDUCKSHOVESDUCKSHOVERSDUCKSHOVING

Could you have found DUCKS?

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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.

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