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TRICKLED

8 letters

Definition of TRICKLED

verb

simple past and past participle of trickle

TRICKLE

noun

A very thin river.

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Word DNA

TRICKLED inherits its ancestry from its root, TRICKLE.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (4,835)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound-le

Same root, TRICKLE · 7 relatives in the game

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

TRICKLED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 41 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its 22 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
22
Boards found on
73
First board
149
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First ever to find it

omglx

on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TRICKLED
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TRICKLED starts with T and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEIKLRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start TRICKL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TRICKLED?

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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.

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