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THICKETS

8 letters

Definition of THICKETS

noun

plural of thicket

THICKET

noun

A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.

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Word DNA

THICKETS inherits its ancestry from its root, THICKET.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

6th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

4.1%

of traced words share this origin (1,218)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-et

Same root, THICKET · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Czech, German, Latin, Polish.

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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.

THICKETS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 149
Its one board, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
148
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

kcjojo

on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

THICKETS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

THICKETS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEHIKSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

THICKESTTHICKSET

Words that start THICKE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found THICKETS?

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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.

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