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TICKY
Definition of TICKY
adjective
infested with ticks (the tiny woodland arthropod of the order Acarina).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From tick + -y.
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.
TICKY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 50, 9 July 2026.
Built from these letters
TICKY starts with T and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CIKTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 50
Could you have found TICKY?
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 50 - and most players walked straight past it.
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