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SHICKER

/ˈʃɪkɚ/7 letters

Definition of SHICKER

noun

Drunk, drunkard.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Yiddish שיכּור (shiker, “drunk”), from Hebrew שיכור / שִׁכּוֹר (shikór).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SHICKER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its one board, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
101
First board
19
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.

First ever to find it

grinninggoose

on Day 101, 29 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SHICKER
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SHICKER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CEHIKRS - 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 SHICKE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SHICKERSSHICKERED

Could you have found SHICKER?

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 101 - and most players walked straight past it.

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