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HEROIC
Definition of HEROIC
adjective
Of or relating to a hero or heroine; supremely noble.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Partly from Middle French heroïque and partly from Latin hērōicus. By surface analysis, hero + -ic.
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.
HEROIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 100 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 23, 12 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HEROIC starts with H and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CEHIOR - 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 HEROIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HEROIC?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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