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PEAKY

/ˈpiːki/5 letters

Definition of PEAKY

adjective

Sickly; peaked.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From peak + -y.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjective2 syllablescompound

Same root, PEAK · 8 relatives in the game

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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.

PEAKY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 53 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 163
Its 24 boards, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
24
Boards found on
36
First board
158
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.

Built from these letters

PEAKY
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PEAKY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEKPY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found PEAKY?

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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.

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