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HEFTY
Definition of HEFTY
adjective
With heft; heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
19th century. From heft (“weight”) + -y. The similarity with German heftig (“vigorous, violent, intense”) is apparently coincidental. From the German are Dutch, Danish, Norwegian heftig, Swedish häftig.
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.
HEFTY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 37 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 18, 7 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 18, 7 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HEFTY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EFHTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 18
Could you have found HEFTY?
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 18 - and most players walked straight past it.
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