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HACKER
Definition of HACKER
noun
Someone who hacks. One who cuts with heavy or rough blows.
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Where it comes from
From Late Middle English hackere, hakker, hakkere (“one who cuts wood, woodchopper, woodcutter; (rare) tool for cutting wood”), from hakken, hacke (“to cut (something) with a chopping action, hack; to make a chopping action”) + -er(e) (suffix forming agent nouns). Hakken is derived from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn (“to chop, hack”), from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop, hack”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; a handle; a hook; a peg”). The English word may be analysed as hack (“to chop or cut down in a rough manner”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).
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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.
HACKER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 58, 17 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First found by a player on Day 58, 17 July 2026.
Built from these letters
HACKER starts with H and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACEHKR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HACKER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 58
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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 58 - and most players walked straight past it.
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