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HEAVY
Definition of HEAVY
adjective
Having great weight.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to take, grasp, hold”). Equivalent to heave + -y. Related to have. Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Saterland Frisian heeuwich, häwich (“violent, angry”), West Frisian hevich (“violent”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), German Low German hevig (“violent, fierce, intense, angry”), German hebig (compare heftig (“fierce, severe, intense, violent, heavy”)), Icelandic höfugur (“heavy, weighty, important”), Latin capāx (“large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt”). Compare typologically Russian объёмный (obʺjómnyj), ёмкий (jómkij) (akin to име́ть (imétʹ), взять (vzjatʹ)).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HEAVY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First found by a player on Day 21, 10 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HEAVY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEHVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HEAVY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found HEAVY?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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