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TICCA
Definition of TICCA
adjective
Engaged by the job, or on a contract.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Hindi ठेका (ṭhekā, literally “hire, fare, fixed price”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TICCA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
Built from these letters
TICCA starts with T and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ACCIT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found TICCA?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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