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NUDNICKS

8 letters

Definition of NUDNICKS

noun

plural of nudnick

NUDNIK · via nudnick

noun

A person who is very annoying; a pest, a nag, a jerk.

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Word DNA

NUDNICKS inherits its ancestry from its root, NUDNIK.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Slavic
  3. Yiddish
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (12,180)

How it is built

nouncompound-nik

Same root, NUDNIK · 3 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Hebrew, Polish, Russian.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

NUDNICKS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 175
Its 2 boards, across 175 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
139
First board
172
Latest board
33
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

juniper

on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

NUDNICKS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

NUDNICKS starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CDIKNNSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.

Words that start NUDNIC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found NUDNICKS?

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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