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HEARTLAND
Definition of HEARTLAND
noun
Synonym of heart (“the seat of the affections or love”).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From heart (“(figuratively) centre, core, essence”) + land.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HEARTLAND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 99, 27 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HEARTLAND starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AADEHLNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start HEARTL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HEARTLAND?
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 99 - and most players walked straight past it.
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