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HEMICRANIA
Definition of HEMICRANIA
noun
A headache affecting one side of the head.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Late Latin hemicrania (“pain in one half of the head”), from Ancient Greek ἡμικρᾱνίᾰ (hēmikrāníă), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-, half”) + κρανίον (kraníon, “skull”) (from whence also cranium). Cognate to megrim and migraine, which also derive from the Latin.
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.
HEMICRANIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HEMICRANIA starts with H and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AACEHIIMNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and A appear more than once.
Words that start HEMICR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found HEMICRANIA?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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