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ALOHA

/əˈləʊ.(h)ə/5 letters

Definition of ALOHA

noun

Good wishes, love, compassion, peacefulness and affection.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Hawaiian aloha (“love”), from Proto-Polynesian *qarofa. Doublet of aroha and aropa.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Hawaiian
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Hawaiian

Deepest traced root

47th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.1%

of traced words share this origin (51)

Austronesian

branch · 0.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun3 syllables

Same root, ALOHA · 1 relative in the game

Every Hawaiian 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.

ALOHA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 61 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 169
Its 29 boards, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
29
Boards found on
6
First board
164
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.

Built from these letters

ALOHA
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ALOHA starts with A and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAHLO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start ALOHA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ALOHA?

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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.

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