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MOCKERY
Definition of MOCKERY
noun
The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English mokkery, from Anglo-Norman mokerie, mokery and Middle French mocquerie, moquerie, from moquer, moker (“to mock”) + -erie (“-ery”), perhaps from Byzantine Greek μωκός (mōkós, “mocker”), perhaps from Arabic مَكْر (makr, “scheme, plot”). Equivalent to mock + -ery.
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.
MOCKERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 45 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MOCKERY starts with M and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CEKMORY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MOCKER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found MOCKERY?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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