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SICKED

6 letters

Definition of SICKED

verb

simple past and past participle of sick

SICK

adjective

In poor health; ill.

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Word DNA

SICKED inherits its ancestry from its root, SICK.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,595)

How it is built

verb

Same root, SICK · 7 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Irish, Norwegian, Swedish.

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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.

SICKED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 165
Its 3 boards, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
88
First board
139
Latest board
27
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 88, 16 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.

First found by a player on Day 88, 16 August 2026.

Built from these letters

SICKED
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SICKED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEIKS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found SICKED?

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 88 - and most players walked straight past it.

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