The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PICQUET
Definition of PICQUET
noun
Alternative form of piquet (“card game”).
noun
A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.
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Word DNA
PICQUET inherits its ancestry from its root, PIQUET.
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,125)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PIQUET · 5 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PICQUET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 45, 4 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 45, 4 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PICQUET starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEIPQTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start PICQUE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PICQUET?
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 45 - and most players walked straight past it.
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