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WICKEDS
Definition of WICKEDS
Wiktionary has no entry for WICKEDS itself. This is its base word, WICKED.
adjective
Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for WICKED.
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.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
24th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (116)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WICKED · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WICKEDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WICKEDS starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CDEIKSW - 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.
Could you have found WICKEDS?
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