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HESITANCE
Definition of HESITANCE
noun
The act or state of hesitating.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin haesitantia.
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.
HESITANCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 88, 16 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 88, 16 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HESITANCE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEEHINST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start HESITA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HESITANCE?
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 88 - and most players walked straight past it.
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