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HARMONIZE

/ˈhɑː.mə.naɪz/9 letters

Definition of HARMONIZE

verb

To be in harmonious agreement.

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Where it comes from

From French harmoniser. By surface analysis, harmony + -ize.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

7.2%

of traced words share this origin (2,103)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

verb3 syllablescompound-ize

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HARMONIZE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

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Boards found on
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First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

quinter99

on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HARMONIZE
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HARMONIZE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEHIMNORZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start HARMON

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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