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HEPATICS
Definition of HEPATICS
noun
plural of hepatic
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Word DNA
HEPATICS inherits its ancestry from its root, HEPATIC.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,695)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HEPATIC · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HEPATICS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 38 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HEPATICS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEHIPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start HEPATI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HEPATICS?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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