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HELES

/hiːlz/5 letters

Definition of HELES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of hele

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

HELES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 119
Its 3 boards, across 119 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
54
First board
119
Latest board
64
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 54, 13 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

fish675

on Day 54, 13 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HELES
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found HELES?

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 54 - and most players walked straight past it.

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