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HAIRLINE

/ˈhɛɹˌlaɪn/8 letters

Definition of HAIRLINE

noun

The line along one's forehead where hair starts growing.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From hair + line.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

HAIRLINE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 111
Its 7 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
29
First board
109
Latest board
32
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.

Also on

Built from these letters

HAIRLINE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

HAIRLINE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEHIILNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start HAIRLI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HAIRLINE?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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