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FLACKER
Definition of FLACKER
verb
To flutter like a bird.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English flakeren (“to flutter, waver”), from Old English *flacorian, from Proto-West Germanic *flakurōn, from Proto-Germanic *flakurōną (“to flutter”), related to Old English flacor (“flickering, fluttering”). Sometimes regarded as a frequentative, equivalent to flack + -er (frequentative suffix). Akin to Middle Dutch flakkeren (“to flicker, waver”), German flackern (“to flare, flicker, flutter”), Icelandic flökra (“to flutter”), Icelandic flakka (“to rove about”), Old English flacor (“flying, fluttering”). See also flack, flicker.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (980)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FLACK · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Icelandic, Middle Dutch.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FLACKER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FLACKER starts with F and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACEFKLR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FLACKE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found FLACKER?
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