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TRICKERY
Definition of TRICKERY
noun
Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From trick + -ery, first recorded in 1719. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Old French tricherie?”)
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, TRICK · 16 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old French.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TRICKERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TRICKERY starts with T and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CEIKRRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start TRICKE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TRICKERY?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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