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HAZE

/heɪz/4 letters

Definition of HAZE

noun

Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility.

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

HAZE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 123
Its 3 boards, across 123 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
29
First board
107
Latest board
39
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.

Built from these letters

HAZE
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HAZE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEHZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start HAZE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HAZE?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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