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WRECKERS

8 letters

Definition of WRECKERS

noun

plural of wrecker

WRECKER

noun

A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts.

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Word DNA

WRECKERS inherits its ancestry from its root, WRECK.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old Norse
  3. Anglo-Norman
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (4,089)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, WRECK · 10 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Old English, Proto-Indo-European, Swedish.

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

WRECKERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 176
Its one board, across 176 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
172
First board
4
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

drirons

on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

WRECKERS starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEEKRRSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and E appear more than once.

Words that start WRECKE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

WRECKEDWRECKER

Could you have found WRECKERS?

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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.

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