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PICKADIL

8 letters

Definition of PICKADIL

noun

Alternative form of piccadill.

PICCADILL

noun

A large, broad lace collar from the 17th century.

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Word DNA

PICKADIL inherits its ancestry from its root, PICCADILL.

Line of descent

  1. Spanish
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Spanish

Deepest traced root

12th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.2%

of traced words share this origin (973)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, PICCADILL · 4 relatives in the game

Every Spanish word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

PICKADIL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its one board, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
160
First board
9
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First ever to find it

whisperingPATRON

on Day 160, 27 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PICKADIL
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PICKADIL starts with P and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACDIIKLP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start PICKAD

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PICKADILLPICKADILSPICKADILLOPICKADILLSPICKADILLY

Could you have found PICKADIL?

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 160 - and most players walked straight past it.

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