The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PICKER
Definition of PICKER
noun
Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pikere, pykare, equivalent to pick + -er.
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.
PICKER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 84, 12 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
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
PICKER starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CEIKPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 PICKER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PICKER?
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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