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HECTOGON

8 letters

Definition of HECTOGON

noun

A polygon having a hundred sides.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From hecto- + -gon.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-gonhecto-

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

HECTOGON in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its 2 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
158
First board
163
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 158, 25 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

boocakes

on Day 158, 25 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HECTOGON
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HECTOGON starts with H and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CEGHNOOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start HECTOG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

HECTOGONSHECTOGRAMHECTOGRAMSHECTOGRAPHHECTOGRAMMEHECTOGRAPHSHECTOGRAPHYHECTOGRAPHEDHECTOGRAPHING

Could you have found HECTOGON?

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 158 - and most players walked straight past it.

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