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HAVEN
Definition of HAVEN
noun
A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English haven, havene, from Old English hæfen (“haven; harbour; port”), from Proto-West Germanic *habanu, from Proto-Germanic *habnō, *habanō (compare Dutch haven, German Hafen, Norwegian/Danish havn, Swedish hamn, French havre), from Proto-Germanic *habą (“sea”) (compare Old English hæf, Middle Low German haf, Old Norse haf (“sea”), German Haff (“bay or lagoon behind a spit”), perhaps, in the sense of "heaving sea", etymologically identical with Old Norse haf (“heaving, lifting, uplift, elevation”), derived from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to lift, heave”)), or from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pnós (compare Old Irish cúan (“harbor, recess, haven”)). Doublet of abra.
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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.
HAVEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HAVEN starts with H and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEHNV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HAVEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found HAVEN?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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