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QUICKSILVER
Definition of QUICKSILVER
noun
The metal mercury.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English quyk silver, quyksilver, quikselver, from Old English cwicseolfor (“quicksilver”, literally “living silver”) (see Latin argentum vīvum) from its ability to move. See quick in the sense of "living". Cognate with Dutch kwikzilver, German Low German Quicksülver, German Quecksilber, Danish kviksølv, Norwegian Bokmål kvikksølv, Swedish kvicksilver. By surface analysis, quick (“living”) + silver.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,204)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, German, Latin, Norwegian, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
QUICKSILVER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far. 265 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
QUICKSILVER starts with Q and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CEIIKLQRSUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start QUICKSI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found QUICKSILVER?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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