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HATES
About HATES
HATES is a valid 5-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HATES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 70, 29 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.
First found by a player on Day 15, 4 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HATES starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEHST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found HATES?
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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
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