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HALFPENNY
Definition of HALFPENNY
noun
Senses chiefly with the plural form halfpennies. A discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny (old or new).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English halpeni, halfpeni (“English coin worth half a penny; coin used in biblical times; small foreign coin”), and then either: By surface analysis, half + penny.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,182)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HALFPENNY · 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.
HALFPENNY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HALFPENNY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEFHLNNPY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start HALFPE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HALFPENNY?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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