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HACKLE
Definition of HACKLE
noun
An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English hakle (compare the compound meshakele), from Old English hæcla, hacele, from Proto-Germanic *hakulǭ, equivalent to hack + -le. Cognate with Dutch hekel, German Hechel.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HACKLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 38, 27 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HACKLE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEHKL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HACKLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found HACKLE?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
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