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HALOGEN
Definition of HALOGEN
noun
Any element of group 17, i.e. fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, astatine and tennessine.
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Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “salt" or "sea”) + γεν- (gen-), "to produce" (coined by Berzelius in 1842). By surface analysis, halo- (“salt”) + -gen (“forming”).
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.
HALOGEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 49 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HALOGEN starts with H and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEGHLNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HALOGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HALOGEN?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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