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SKRIKED

7 letters

Definition of SKRIKED

verb

simple past and past participle of skrike

SKRIKE

verb

To cry, sob, cry out or yell; to scream.

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Word DNA

SKRIKED inherits its ancestry from its root, SKRIK.

Line of descent

  1. Dutch
  2. Afrikaans
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Dutch

Deepest traced root

15th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

0.8%

of traced words share this origin (225)

Germanic

branch · 22.4% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, SKRIK · 1 relative in the game

Every Dutch 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.

SKRIKED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 141
Its one board, across 141 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
139
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

comixSUPPORTER

on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SKRIKED
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SKRIKED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEIKKRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. K appears more than once.

Words that start SKRIKE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SKRIKESKRIKES

Could you have found SKRIKED?

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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.

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