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WHACKERS

8 letters

Definition of WHACKERS

noun

plural of whacker

WHACKER

noun

One who, or something which, whacks.

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Another sense

WHACKERS carries a second meaning.

  1. noun

    Plural form of whacker.

Word DNA

WHACKERS inherits its ancestry from its root, WHACK.

Line of descent

  1. Malay
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Malay

Deepest traced root

29th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.3%

of traced words share this origin (218)

Austronesian

branch · 0.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, WHACK · 5 relatives in the game

Every Malay word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

WHACKERS in a sentence

“I'm not for sure what kind of 'whackers' the Quaid's are refering to, but I once saw a bevis and butthead movie where they defiled an old man's travel trailer.”

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion, 2010

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.

WHACKERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 77 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 27 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
27
Boards found on
23
First board
149
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

malkel5

on Day 23, 12 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start WHACKE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WHACKERS?

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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.

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