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HEDDLE
Definition of HEDDLE
noun
A component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English helde, from Old English hefeld, from the root of Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have, heave”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Cognate with Old Saxon hevild, Middle Low German hevelte, Icelandic hafald.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HEDDLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 47 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 76, 4 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HEDDLE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DDEEHL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and D appear more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found HEDDLE?
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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
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