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HEIRLOOM

/ˈɛə.luːm/8 letters

Definition of HEIRLOOM

noun

A valued possession that has been passed down through the generations.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English heirlome (“heirloom”, literally “a tool or article passed to one's heirs”). By surface analysis, heir + loom. Displaced native Old English fæderġestrēon.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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

HEIRLOOM in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 111
Its 7 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
36
First board
106
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

suzanna9452000

on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

HEIRLOOM
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

HEIRLOOM starts with H and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read EHILMOOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start HEIRLO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HEIRLOOM?

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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.

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