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HENBITS
Definition of HENBITS
noun
plural of henbit
noun
An annual herb, of species Lamium amplexicaule, with pink or purple flowers and deeply crenate leaves.
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Word DNA
HENBITS inherits its ancestry from its root, HENBIT.
Line of descent
- Dutch
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
16th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.9%
of traced words share this origin (715)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HENBIT · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names French, Italian, Latin, Middle Low German.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HENBITS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 54, 13 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 54, 13 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HENBITS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BEHINST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 54
Could you have found HENBITS?
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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