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PRICKET
Definition of PRICKET
noun
A candle.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English precat, preket, priket, pryket; equivalent to prick + -et. Earlier currency of the Middle English word is apparently implied by surnames and borrowings into Latin and Anglo-Norman.
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.
PRICKET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PRICKET starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEIKPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PRICKE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found PRICKET?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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