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PICKERY
Definition of PICKERY
noun
A place where cotton is picked.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pick (“to steal”), or perhaps from pickeer.
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.
PICKERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 54, 13 July 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 54, 13 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PICKERY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CEIKPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PICKER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 54
Could you have found PICKERY?
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 54 - and most players walked straight past it.
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