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HAMED

5 letters

Definition of HAMED

Wiktionary has no entry for HAMED itself. This is its base word, HAME.

noun

shroud, a covering, skin, membrane.

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Where it comes from

The origin recorded for HAME.

From Middle English hame, home, from Old English hama, homa (“a cover, skin”), from Proto-Germanic *hamô (“clothes, skirt”). Cognate with Old Norse hamr and its descendants, such as Danish ham (“skin, bladder, figure”), Danish hams (“shell, sleeve”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

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Players have found it on 1 board so far.

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Its one board, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
96
First board
16
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First ever to find it

allabouttheicsi

on Day 96, 24 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HAMED
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

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