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HERD
Definition of HERD
noun
A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (“herd, flock; keeping, care, custody”), from Proto-West Germanic *herdu, from Proto-Germanic *herdō (“herd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerdʰ- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Danish hjord, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo.
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.
HERD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 87, 15 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 36 days.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HERD starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEHR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HERD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found HERD?
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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