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HAUNTOLOGY
Definition of HAUNTOLOGY
noun
A concept involving the return or persistence of elements from the social or cultural past.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French hantologie: equivalent to haunt + -ology, and a near-homophone to ontologie (“ontology”); apparently coined by Jacques Derrida in Spectres of Marx (1993).
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.
HAUNTOLOGY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 119, 16 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 119, 16 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HAUNTOLOGY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AGHLNOOTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Could you have found HAUNTOLOGY?
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 119 - and most players walked straight past it.
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