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HAIN
Definition of HAIN
verb
To hedge or fence in; enclose; protect by hedging.
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Where it comes from
From earlier hayne, from Middle English *haynen, *heynen, from Old Norse hegna (“to protect; defend”), from Proto-Germanic *haginjaną (“to hedge”), equivalent to hedge + -en. Cognate with Icelandic hegna (“to fence; confine; punish”), Swedish hägna (“to fence off; enclose; protect”), Danish hegne (“to enclose; fence in”). Related to hedge. The noun is from Middle English heyn.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HAIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 65, 24 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 65, 24 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HAIN starts with H and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AHIN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HAIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HAIN?
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 65 - and most players walked straight past it.
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