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HARDENED
Definition of HARDENED
verb
simple past and past participle of harden
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Word DNA
HARDENED inherits its ancestry from its root, HARDEN.
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,019)
branch · 22.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HARDEN · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HARDENED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 132, 29 September 2026.
Built from these letters
HARDENED starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADDEEHNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and E appear 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.
Words that start HARDEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HARDENED?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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