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RICKETS
Definition of RICKETS
noun
A disorder of infancy and early childhood due to a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft or weak bones.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unknown. Originally a local name for the disease in Dorset and Somerset, England. Occasionally postulated to be derived from a Dorsetian dialectal term *rucket (“to breathe with difficulty, wheeze”), but the semantic connection is tenuous. See rachitis, but the medical name was chosen purposefully by English physician Daniel Whistler from phonetic similarity to rickets.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, RICKET · 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.
RICKETS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 40 boards so far. 177 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RICKETS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEIKRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RICKET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found RICKETS?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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