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HALCYONS
Definition of HALCYONS
noun
plural of halcyon
noun
A kingfisher whose nesting by the sea was said, in classical mythology, to cause the Gods to restrain the wind and waves. The dead body of such a bird, said in Tudor times to act as a weather vane when hung from a beam.
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Word DNA
HALCYONS inherits its ancestry from its root, HALCYON.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,695)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HALCYON · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HALCYONS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 47 boards so far. 104 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HALCYONS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACHLNOSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HALCYO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found HALCYONS?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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