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HEATHER
Definition of HEATHER
noun
An evergreen plant, Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English hather, hathir, from Old English *hǣddre and hǣþ (“heather”), cognate with Scots hedder, hadder, heddir (“heather”), Saterland Frisian Heede (“heather”), West Frisian heide (“heather”), Dutch heide (“heather”), German Low German Heide, Heid (“heather”), German Heide (“heather”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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 (3,077)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HEATH · 6 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, German, Scots.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HEATHER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HEATHER starts with H and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEEHHRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. H and E appear more than once.
Words that start HEATHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HEATHER?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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