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SNECKED

7 letters

Definition of SNECKED

verb

simple past and past participle of sneck

SNECK

noun

A latch or catch.

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Word DNA

SNECKED inherits its ancestry from its root, SNECK.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (4,849)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, SNECK · 1 relative in the game

Its etymology also names Old English, Proto-Germanic, Scots.

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

SNECKED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its 5 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
47
First board
121
Latest board
34
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 38 days.

First found by a player on Day 47, 6 July 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Could you have found SNECKED?

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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.

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