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HENT

4 letters

Definition of HENT

verb

To take hold of, to grasp.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English henten (also hynten, hinten > English hint), from Old English hentan (“to pursue, chase after, seize, arrest, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *hantijan, from Proto-Germanic *hantijaną (“to seize”), related to Icelandic henta (“to suit, beseem”), Old English huntian (“to hunt”), Old High German hunda (“spoils, booty”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

HENT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 114
Its 11 boards, across 114 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
64
First board
108
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 64, 23 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

intrepidwar

on Day 64, 23 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

HENT starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EHNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start HENT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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