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PERSNICKETY
Definition of PERSNICKETY
adjective
US standard form of pernickety.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
PERSNICKETY carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Overparticular about trivial details; fastidious.
adjective
Snobbish; pretentious.
adjective
Requiring strict attention to detail; demanding.
“a persnickety job.”
adjective
Finicky or fussy; demanding attention to petty details; -- of people.
Where it comes from
From Scots persnickety, whence also pernickety. More at pernickety.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Scots
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
24th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (336)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PERSNICKETY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 175 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PERSNICKETY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CEEIKNPRSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of PERSNICKETY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start PERSNIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found PERSNICKETY?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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