The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
WICKED
Definition of WICKED
adjective
Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English wicked, wikked, an alteration of Middle English wicke, wikke (“morally perverse, evil, wicked”). Of uncertain origin. Possibly from an adjectival use of Old English wiċċa (“wizard, sorcerer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikkō (“necromancer, sorcerer”), though the phonology makes this theory difficult to explain. Alternatively, perhaps related to English wicker, Old Norse víkja (“to bend to, yield, turn, move”), Swedish vika (“to bend, fold, give way to”), English weak. The "excellent, awesome" sense is an ameliorative semantic shift from the original sense of "evil, mischievous". Compare similar semantic development in terrific and sick.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WICKED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 60 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WICKED starts with W and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEIKW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WICKED
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found WICKED?
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.
Play today's OUTLIER