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PIKERS

6 letters

Definition of PIKERS

noun

plural of piker

PIKER

noun

A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.

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Word DNA

PIKERS inherits its ancestry from its root, PIKE.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old French
  3. Middle French
  4. Old English
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,750)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, PIKE · 10 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Irish, Middle Dutch, Norwegian.

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

PIKERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 77 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 160
Its 21 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
21
Boards found on
31
First board
160
Latest board
23
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

michaelPATRON

on Day 31, 20 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PIKERS
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PIKERS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EIKPRS - 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.

Could you have found PIKERS?

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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.

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