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HARMS

5 letters

Definition of HARMS

noun

plural of harm

HARM

noun

Physical injury; hurt; damage.

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Word DNA

HARMS inherits its ancestry from its root, HARM.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,919)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, HARM · 5 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish.

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

HARMS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its 2 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
92
First board
140
Latest board
48
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 92, 20 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 28 days.

First ever to find it

icypenguin

on Day 92, 20 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HARMS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

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

Could you have found HARMS?

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 92 - and most players walked straight past it.

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