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HANCE

/hɑːns/5 letters

Definition of HANCE

verb

To raise, to elevate.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

See enhance.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

HANCE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 4 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
95
First board
101
Latest board
3
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 95, 23 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

yyzed

on Day 95, 23 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start HANCE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HANCE?

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 95 - and most players walked straight past it.

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