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LUDERICK
Definition of LUDERICK
noun
A fish of species Girella tricuspidata.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
A borrowing into English of the Australian aboriginal name for the fish. (Reference: Australian Fish and How to Catch Them, Richard Allan, Landsdowne Publishing, 1990, →ISBN.) This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LUDERICK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LUDERICK starts with L and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read CDEIKLRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start LUDERI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LUDERICK?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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