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HEAVEN
Definition of HEAVEN
noun
The sky, specifically: The distant sky in which the sun, moon, and stars appear or move; the firmament; the celestial spheres. The near sky in which weather, flying animals, etc. appear; the atmosphere; the climate. A model displaying the movement of the celestial bodies, an orrery.
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Where it comes from
From a wide variety of Middle English forms including hevene, heven, hevin, and hewin (“heaven, sky”), from Old English heofon, heofone (“heaven, sky”), from Proto-West Germanic *hebn (“heaven, sky”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots heiven, hewin (“heaven, sky”), Middle Dutch heven (“sky, heaven”), Low German Heven (“heaven, sky”), and possibly the rare Icelandic and Old Norse hifinn (“heaven, sky”), which are all probably dissimilated forms of the Germanic root which appears in Old Norse himinn (“heaven, sky”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (himins, “heaven, sky”), Old Swedish himin, Old Danish himæn and probably also (in another variant form) Old Saxon himil, Old Dutch himil (modern Dutch hemel), and Old High German himil (German Himmel). Accepting these as cognates, some scholars propose a further derivation from Proto-Germanic *himinaz (“cover, cloud cover, firmament, sky, heaven”).
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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 (2,961)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HEAVEN · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Icelandic, Middle Dutch, Old Norse, Proto-Germanic, Scots, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HEAVEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 82 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 23, 12 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HEAVEN starts with H and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEEHNV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start HEAVEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found HEAVEN?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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