The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HAMATE
Definition of HAMATE
adjective
Hooked at the end.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin hamus (“hook”) + -ate (adjective forming suffix); the noun is a back-formation from hamate bone, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
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.
HAMATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 31, 20 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HAMATE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAEHMT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found HAMATE?
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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
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