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HAMBLE

/ˈhæm.bəl/6 letters

Definition of HAMBLE

verb

To mutilate; hamstring; cut away.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English hamlen, hamelen, from Old English hamelian (“to hamstring, mutilate”), from Proto-West Germanic *hamalōn, from Proto-Germanic *hamalōną (“to mutilate”), from Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Cognate with German hammeln, hämmeln (“to geld”), Icelandic hamla (“to mutilate, maim”), Dutch hamel (“wether, castrated ram”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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Find it yourself

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

HAMBLE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 99
Its 4 boards, across 99 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
29
First board
96
Latest board
43
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.

Built from these letters

HAMBLE
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HAMBLE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEHLM - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start HAMBLE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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