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SILLOCKS

8 letters

Definition of SILLOCKS

noun

plural of sillock

SILLOCK

noun

A pollock or a coalfish, sometimes especially a young coalfish.

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Word DNA

SILLOCKS inherits its ancestry from its root, SILLOCK.

Line of descent

  1. Old Norse
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Old Norse

Deepest traced root

14th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1%

of traced words share this origin (833)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ock

Same root, SILLOCK · 1 relative in the game

Its etymology also names Norwegian, Swedish.

Every Old Norse word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

SILLOCKS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its one board, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
153
First board
16
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First ever to find it

quinciiPATRON

on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SILLOCKS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
6
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SILLOCKS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CIKLLOSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and L appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start SILLOC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SILLOCKS?

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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.

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