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ROCKET
Definition of ROCKET
noun
A projectile. A cylindrical projectile that can be fired to a great height through combustion, a type of firework of this form, typically exploding with light and colour; a skyrocket. A blunt lance head used in jousting. A long vehicle or craft propelled by a rocket engine; a missile or rocket-propelled spacecraft. An engine operating similarly to the pyrotechnic, generating thrust by the expulsion of hot gases; a rocket engine.
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Where it comes from
From Italian rocchetta, from Old Italian rocchetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), from Lombardic rocko (“spinning wheel”), from Proto-West Germanic *rokkō, from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”). Cognate with Old High German rocco, rocko, roccho, rocho ("a distaff"; > German Rocken (“a distaff”)), Swedish rock (“a distaff”), Icelandic rokkur (“a distaff”), Middle English rocke (“a distaff”). More at rock⁴. For the meaning development, compare fuselage, ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle, spinning wheel”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Proto-Germanic
- Italian
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (990)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ROCKET · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Icelandic, Latin, Middle English, 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.
ROCKET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
ROCKET starts with R and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEKORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ROCKET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found ROCKET?
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