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WICKETS
Definition of WICKETS
noun
plural of wicket
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Word DNA
WICKETS inherits its ancestry from its root, WICKET.
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 (3,691)
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.
WICKETS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 40 boards so far. 189 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WICKETS starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEIKSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found WICKETS?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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