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HEADWAYS
Definition of HEADWAYS
noun
plural of headway
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Word DNA
HEADWAYS inherits its ancestry from its root, HEADWAY.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.1%
of traced words share this origin (1,226)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HEADWAY · 1 relative 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.
HEADWAYS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 74, 2 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 74, 2 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HEADWAYS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AADEHSWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start HEADWA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HEADWAYS?
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 74 - and most players walked straight past it.
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