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HALIDOM
Definition of HALIDOM
noun
Holiness; sanctity; sacred honour.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English halidom, haliȝdom, from Old English hāliġdōm (“holiness, righteousness, sanctity; holy place, sanctuary, chapel; relics, holy things; holy office; sacrament; holy doctrines”), corresponding to holy + -dom, from Proto-Germanic *hailagadōmaz. Cognate with Dutch heiligdom (“sanctuary, shrine”), German Heiligtum (“sanctuary, shrine, holy relic”), Swedish helgedom (“shrine, sanctuary, temple, sanctum”), Icelandic helgidómur (“sanctuary, holy relic”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,911)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HALIDOM · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HALIDOM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 37, 26 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HALIDOM starts with H and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read ADHILMO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HALIDO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 37
Could you have found HALIDOM?
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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.
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