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FLICKIER

8 letters

Definition of FLICKIER

adjective

comparative form of flicky: more flicky

FLICKY

adjective

Easily flicked; thus, light and fast.

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Word DNA

FLICKIER inherits its ancestry from its root, FLICK.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,155)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjective

Same root, FLICK · 13 relatives in the game

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

FLICKIER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its 2 boards, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
160
First board
164
Latest board
4
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 160, 27 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

pb96

on Day 160, 27 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FLICKIER
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

FLICKIER starts with F and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CEFIIKLR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start FLICKI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FLICKIER?

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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