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HARTSHORNS
Definition of HARTSHORNS
noun
plural of hartshorn
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Word DNA
HARTSHORNS inherits its ancestry from its root, HART.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,700)
How it is built
Same root, HART · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Danish, Dutch, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, Sanskrit, Swedish and 1 more.
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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.
HARTSHORNS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.
Built from these letters
HARTSHORNS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AHHNORRSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. H, R and S appear more than once.
Could you have found HARTSHORNS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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