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HELLACIOUS
Definition of HELLACIOUS
adjective
horrible, awful, hellish, agonizing, difficult.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unclear origins; perhaps from hell + -acious
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.
HELLACIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HELLACIOUS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEHILLOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start HELLAC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HELLACIOUS?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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