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WICKET
Definition of WICKET
noun
A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English wiket, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French wiket, from Old East Old Norse víkjask (“to move oneself, move around”), reflexive of víkja, víkva, ýkva (“to yield, turn, move, go”), from Proto-Germanic *wīkwaną (“to yield, bend, turn”). Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,911)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WICKET · 1 relative 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.
WICKET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 42 boards so far. 202 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WICKET starts with W and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEIKTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found WICKET?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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