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PICK
Definition of PICK
noun
A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English piken, picken, pikken, from Old English *piccian, *pīcian (attested in pīcung (“a pricking”)), and pīcan, pȳcan (“to pick, prick, pluck”), both from Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick, knock”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound”). Doublet of pitch and peck. Cognate with Dutch pikken (“to pick”), German picken (“to pick, peck”), Old Norse pikka, pjakka (whence Icelandic pikka (“to pick, prick”), Swedish picka (“to pick, peck”)). Compare also German Low German puken (“to pick out, rip out, pull away, extract”).
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.
PICK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 89, 17 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 34 days.
First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PICK starts with P and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read CIKP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PICK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found PICK?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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