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HACKLIEST
Definition of HACKLIEST
Wiktionary has no entry for HACKLIEST itself. This is its base word, HACKLY.
adjective
With a Jagged or rough surface.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for HACKLY.
From hackle + -y. Cf. Hackley.
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.
HACKLIEST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 71 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
HACKLIEST starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACEHIKLST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found HACKLIEST?
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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