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HALLAH
Definition of HALLAH
noun
Alternative form of challah.
noun
A traditional bread eaten by Ashkenazi Jews, usually braided for the Sabbath and round for a yom tov.
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Word DNA
HALLAH inherits its ancestry from its root, CHALLAH.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
30th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.3%
of traced words share this origin (215)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CHALLAH · 8 relatives 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.
HALLAH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 35 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HALLAH starts with H and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AAHHLL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. H, A and L appear more than once, including a double letter. It reads the same backwards - a palindrome, and there are not many in the dictionary this game plays from.
Words that start HALLAH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HALLAH?
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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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