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SPICKNEL
Definition of SPICKNEL
noun
Rare spelling of spignel.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SPICKNEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 97, 25 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPICKNEL starts with S and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read CEIKLNPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SPICKN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SPICKNEL?
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 97 - and most players walked straight past it.
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