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QUACKERY
Definition of QUACKERY
noun
The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From quack + -ery.
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.
QUACKERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 98 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 38, 27 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
QUACKERY starts with Q and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACEKQRUY - 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 QUACKE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found QUACKERY?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
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