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HELD
About HELD
HELD is a valid 4-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HELD in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HELD starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEHL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HELD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HELD?
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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