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TRICKING
Definition of TRICKING
verb
present participle and gerund of trick
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Word DNA
TRICKING inherits its ancestry from its root, TRICK.
Line of descent
6 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,223)
How it is built
Same root, TRICK · 16 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Romanian.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TRICKING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TRICKING starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CGIIKNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start TRICKI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found TRICKING?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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