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RICKLY
Definition of RICKLY
Wiktionary has no entry for RICKLY itself. This is its base word, RICK.
noun
Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for RICK.
From Middle English *rykke, from Old English hrycce (“rick, heap, pile”), cognate with Scots ruk (“rick”), Norwegian ruka (“rick, haystack”). Related also to Old English hrēac (“rick, stack”), from Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“heap”). Further relations: Dutch rook, Icelandic hraukur, Irish cruach. Doublet of croagh.
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.
RICKLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 77, 5 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 25 days.
First found by a player on Day 77, 5 August 2026.
Built from these letters
RICKLY starts with R and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CIKLRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found RICKLY?
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 77 - and most players walked straight past it.
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