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HABITUALS

9 letters

Definition of HABITUALS

noun

plural of habitual

HABITUAL

adjective

Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.

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Word DNA

HABITUALS inherits its ancestry from its root, HABITUAL.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Latin
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

8.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,623)

How it is built

nouncompound-tus-ual

Same root, HABITUAL · 1 relative in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

HABITUALS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 57 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 149
Its 28 boards, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
28
Boards found on
8
First board
148
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.

Built from these letters

HABITUALS
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start HABITU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HABITUALS?

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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.

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