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HICKORY
Definition of HICKORY
noun
Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genera Carya and Annamocarya, one species of which, Carya illinoinensis, is the source of pecan nuts.
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Where it comes from
A shortening of pockerchicory/pokickery/pohickery, from Powhatan pawcohiccora.
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.
HICKORY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 2, 23 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HICKORY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CHIKORY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 2
Could you have found HICKORY?
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 2 - and most players walked straight past it.
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