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HAULM
Definition of HAULM
noun
The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English halm, from Old English healm, from Proto-Germanic *halmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos) and Latin culmus. Doublet of French calame, calamus, culm, helm (Etymology 4, stalk), and qalam.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HAULM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 38, 27 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
HAULM starts with H and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AHLMU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HAULM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found HAULM?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
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