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PECKERWOOD
Definition of PECKERWOOD
noun
A woodpecker.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inversion of woodpecker. Application to white people is due to the perception that the woodpecker is a symbol of whites, whereas the crow or blackbird is a symbol of blacks.
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.
PECKERWOOD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 84, 12 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 84, 12 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PECKERWOOD starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEEKOOPRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and O appear more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PECKER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PECKERWOOD?
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 84 - and most players walked straight past it.
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