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HEDGEROWS

9 letters

Definition of HEDGEROWS

noun

plural of hedgerow

HEDGEROW

noun

A row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge.

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Word DNA

HEDGEROWS inherits its ancestry from its root, HEDGEROW.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.7%

of traced words share this origin (2,881)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, HEDGEROW · 1 relative in the game

Every Old English word → · 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.

HEDGEROWS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 43 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its 32 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
32
Boards found on
26
First board
158
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

unbeliever

on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HEDGEROWS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HEDGEROWS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEEGHORSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start HEDGER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HEDGEROWS?

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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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