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HUCKSTERS
Definition of HUCKSTERS
noun
plural of huckster
noun
A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street.
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Word DNA
HUCKSTERS inherits its ancestry from its root, HUCKSTER.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.3%
of traced words share this origin (11,293)
How it is built
Same root, HUCKSTER · 4 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HUCKSTERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HUCKSTERS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEHKRSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Words that start HUCKST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HUCKSTERS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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