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HAMED
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).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,861)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HAM · 10 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Old Norse.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HAMED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 96, 24 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 96, 24 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
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.
Could you have found HAMED?
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 96 - and most players walked straight past it.
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