The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HERMIT
Definition of HERMIT
noun
A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English hermite, heremite, eremite, from Old French eremite, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin eremita, from Ancient Greek ἐρημίτης (erēmítēs, “person of the desert”) from ἐρημία (erēmía, “desert, solitude”), from ἔρημος (érēmos) or ἐρῆμος (erêmos, “uninhabited”) plus -ίτης (-ítēs, “one connected to, a member of”). Doublet of eremite. Displaced native Old English ānsetla.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,724)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HERMIT · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HERMIT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HERMIT starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EHIMRT - 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 HERMIT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found HERMIT?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER