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HELLING
Definition of HELLING
verb
present participle and gerund of hell
proper noun
A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.
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Word DNA
HELLING inherits its ancestry from its root, HELL.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,614)
How it is built
Same root, HELL · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish, Latin, Norwegian, Polish and 4 more.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HELLING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HELLING starts with H and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EGHILLN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found HELLING?
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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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