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HEARTLY
Definition of HEARTLY
adjective
Full of heart; cordial; from the heart; hearty
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English hertly, hertely, hertelyche, from Old English *heortlīċ, *ġeheortlīċ (attested only as an adverb: ġeheortlīċe (“thoroughly, virorously”)), equivalent to heart + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,197)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HEARTLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 128, 25 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 128, 25 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HEARTLY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEHLRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start HEARTL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HEARTLY?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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