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PECK

/pɛk/4 letters

Definition of PECK

verb

To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English pecken, pekken, variant of Middle English piken, picken, pikken (“to pick, use a pointed implement”). More at pick.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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

PECK in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 122
Its 7 boards, across 122 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
42
First board
121
Latest board
43
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

jxxxxg8

on Day 42, 1 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

PECK
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start PECK

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PECK?

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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.

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