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HECTOGRAPH
Definition of HECTOGRAPH
noun
An old printing machine that involved the transfer of an original, prepared with special inks, to a pan of gelatin or a gelatin pad pulled tight on a metal frame.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hecto- (“hundred”) + -graph, so called because it would make about 100 copies.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HECTOGRAPH · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HECTOGRAPH 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 4 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
HECTOGRAPH starts with H and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read ACEGHHOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. H appears more than once.
Words that start HECTOG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HECTOGRAPH?
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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