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HEALINGS
Definition of HEALINGS
noun
plural of healing
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Word DNA
HEALINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, HEALING.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (980)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Dutch.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HEALINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 133, 30 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HEALINGS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEGHILNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found HEALINGS?
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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.
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