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RETUCKING
Definition of RETUCKING
verb
present participle and gerund of retuck
RETUCK
verb
To tuck again.
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Word DNA
RETUCKING inherits its ancestry from its root, RETUCK.
How it is built
Same root, RETUCK · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RETUCKING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 149, 16 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RETUCKING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CEGIKNRTU - 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.
Words that start RETUCK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RETUCKING?
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 149 - and most players walked straight past it.
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