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HART
Definition of HART
noun
A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English hert, from Old English heorot (“stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz (compare Dutch hert, German Hirsch, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish hjort), from Pre-Germanic *kerudos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Doublet of Heorot. Compare Welsh carw (“deer”), Latin cervus (“deer”), cervīx (“nape of the neck”), Lithuanian kárvė (“cow”), Russian коро́ва (koróva, “cow”), Ancient Greek κόρυδος (kórudos, “crested lark”), κορυφή (koruphḗ, “summit, crown of the head”), κορύπτω (korúptō, “to butt with horns”), Avestan 𐬯𐬭𐬏 (srū), 𐬯𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬁 (sruuā, “horn; claw, talon”), Sanskrit शरभ (śarabhá, “mythical antelope”). More at horn.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HART in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HART starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AHRT - 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.
Words that start HART
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found HART?
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