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PUCKERED

8 letters

Definition of PUCKERED

adjective

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Word DNA

PUCKERED inherits its ancestry from its root, PUCKER.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,109)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompound-er

Same root, PUCKER · 1 relative in the game

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

PUCKERED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 60 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 167
Its 23 boards, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
23
Boards found on
36
First board
163
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.

Built from these letters

PUCKERED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PUCKERED starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEEKPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start PUCKER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PUCKERED?

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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