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ELASTICKY
Definition of ELASTICKY
adjective
Resembling or characteristic of elastic, especially in being stretchy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From elastic + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ELASTIC · 10 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.
ELASTICKY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 160, 27 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ELASTICKY starts with E and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACEIKLSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ELASTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ELASTICKY?
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 160 - and most players walked straight past it.
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