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HACKERY
Definition of HACKERY
noun
A two-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Uncertain. Variously derived from corruption of hackney (“cheap carriage for hire”), from Hindi चक्र (cakra, “wheel”) under influence from -ery, and from Gujarati ચક્રો (cakro, “ox-cart, rickshaw”), the latter two both from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra, “wheel, disc, cycle”).
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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.
HACKERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 31, 20 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HACKERY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACEHKRY - 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 31
Could you have found HACKERY?
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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
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