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HEREDITARY
Definition of HEREDITARY
adjective
Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English hereditarie, from Latin hērēditārius, from hērēditās (“inheritance”), from hērēs (“heir”).
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.
HEREDITARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HEREDITARY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ADEEHIRRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and R appear more than once.
Words that start HEREDI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HEREDITARY?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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