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HATCHELED

9 letters

Definition of HATCHELED

verb

simple past and past participle of hatchel

HATCHEL

noun

A comb used to separate flax fibers.

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Word DNA

HATCHELED inherits its ancestry from its root, HATCHEL.

Line of descent

  1. German
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

German

Deepest traced root

8th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

3.1%

of traced words share this origin (887)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, HATCHEL · 4 relatives in the game

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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.

HATCHELED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 139
Its one board, across 139 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
137
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

markcc

on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HATCHELED
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HATCHELED starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDEEHHLT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. H and E appear more than once.

Words that start HATCHE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

HATCHEDHATCHELHATCHERHATCHESHATCHETHATCHECKHATCHELSHATCHERSHATCHERYHATCHETSHATCHETYHATCHECKS

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