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HAYWIRE
Definition of HAYWIRE
noun
Wire used to bind bales of hay.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hay + wire. The original meaning of “likely to become tangled unpredictably or unusably, or fall apart”, as though only bound with the kind of soft, springy wire used to bind hay bales comes from usage in New England lumber camps circa 1905 where haywire outfit became the common term to refer to slap-dash collections of logging tools. To go haywire has since evolved to represent the act of falling apart or behaving unpredictably, as would wire spooled under tension springing into an unmanageable tangle once a piece had been removed from the factory spool, e.g., “he took off the back of his watch, removed a gear and the whole works went haywire.”
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HAYWIRE · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HAYWIRE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 37, 26 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HAYWIRE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEHIRWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 37
Could you have found HAYWIRE?
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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.
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