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HALFLING
Definition of HALFLING
noun
A fictional small humanoid creature featuring in fantasy fiction; a hobbit.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From half + -ling. Sense 3 ("half-grown young person") is attested to 1794. It was then used by J.R.R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings (1954) as an alternative reference to members of his hobbit race. Hobbits were used in the original 1974 releases of the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons, but in later editions they were changed to "halflings" for legal reasons, as being a pre-existing word rather than one invented by Tolkien.
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.
HALFLING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 117, 14 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HALFLING starts with H and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AFGHILLN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once.
Words that start HALFLI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HALFLING?
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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.
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