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HEAST
Definition of HEAST
noun
Obsolete form of hest.
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Word DNA
HEAST inherits its ancestry from its root, HEST.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,005)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HEST · 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.
HEAST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 75, 3 August 2026.
Built from these letters
HEAST starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEHST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start HEAST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HEAST?
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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