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STRICKLED

9 letters

Definition of STRICKLED

verb

simple past and past participle of strickle

STRICKLE

noun

A rod used to level off heaped grain etc. when being measured, or concrete after pouring.

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Word DNA

STRICKLED inherits its ancestry from its root, STRICKLE.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.1%

of traced words share this origin (1,219)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound-le

Same root, STRICKLE · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Middle Dutch.

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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.

STRICKLED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 149
Its 7 boards, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
74
First board
149
Latest board
33
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 74, 2 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

forest

on Day 74, 2 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

STRICKLED
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start STRICK

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found STRICKLED?

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 74 - and most players walked straight past it.

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