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TRICKS

/tɹɪks/6 letters

Definition of TRICKS

noun

plural of trick

TRICK

noun

Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.

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Word DNA

TRICKS inherits its ancestry from its root, TRICK.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Middle Dutch
  4. Latin
  5. Old French
  6. Middle English
  7. English

6 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,700)

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Same root, TRICK · 16 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Romanian.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

TRICKS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 165
Its 14 boards, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
47
First board
164
Latest board
40
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 47, 6 July 2026.

Built from these letters

TRICKS
6
Letters
1
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start TRICKS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TRICKSYTRICKSIERTRICKSILYTRICKSOMETRICKSTERTRICKSIESTTRICKSTERSTRICKSINESSTRICKSINESSES

Could you have found TRICKS?

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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.

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