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HEAVENLY
Definition of HEAVENLY
adjective
Of or pertaining to Heaven, the eternal celestial abode of God or the gods.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English hevenely, hevenly, from Old English heofonlīċ (“heavenly, celestial, chaste”), equivalent to heaven + -ly. Cognate with Old Saxon himillīk (“heavenly”), Middle Dutch himellec, hemellijc (“heavenly”), Middle High German himmellich (“heavenly”).
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 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.1%
of traced words share this origin (1,219)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names German, Middle Dutch.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HEAVENLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 228 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 18, 7 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 18, 7 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HEAVENLY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEEHLNVY - 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 18
Could you have found HEAVENLY?
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 18 - and most players walked straight past it.
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