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HARQUEBUS
Definition of HARQUEBUS
noun
An obsolete matchlock firearm.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French harquebuse, borrowed from Middle Low German hakebusse or Middle Dutch hakebus, hagebus (modern Dutch haakbus), from hôk (“hook”) + busse (“box; firelock”), from Old Saxon hōk + *buhsa, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz + *buhsā.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.8%
of traced words share this origin (4,064)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HARQUEBUS · 9 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HARQUEBUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 164, 31 October 2026.
Built from these letters
HARQUEBUS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEHQRSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start HARQUE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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