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HALLOING

8 letters

Definition of HALLOING

verb

present participle and gerund of hallo

HELLO · via hallo

interjection

A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.

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Word DNA

HALLOING inherits its ancestry from its root, HALLO.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.3%

of traced words share this origin (1,137)

Germanic

branch · 22.8% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound

Same root, HALLO · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
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Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

HALLOING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 136
Its one board, across 136 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
131
First board
5
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

chessyf

on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HALLOING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

HALLOING starts with H and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGHILLNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

HOLLAING

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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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.

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