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PERKY
Definition of PERKY
adjective
Lively and often cheerful and enthusiastic.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From perk + -y.
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.
PERKY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
PERKY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EKPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found PERKY?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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