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JERKINS
Definition of JERKINS
noun
plural of jerkin
noun
A type of men's garment popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a close-fitting collarless jacket, with or without sleeves.
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Word DNA
JERKINS inherits its ancestry from its root, JERKIN.
Line of descent
- Old French
- Dutch
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,351)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, JERKIN · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
JERKINS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 51, 10 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
JERKINS starts with J and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EIJKNRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start JERKIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 51
Could you have found JERKINS?
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 51 - and most players walked straight past it.
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