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HEREDITY
Definition of HEREDITY
noun
Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.
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Where it comes from
From Middle French heredité, from Latin hērēditas (“condition of being an heir”), from hēres (“heir”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,726)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HEREDITY · 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.
HEREDITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 14, 3 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 14, 3 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HEREDITY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DEEHIRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start HEREDI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 14
Could you have found HEREDITY?
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 14 - and most players walked straight past it.
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