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HETERONYM
Definition of HETERONYM
noun
(Can we verify this sense?) Calque.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, hetero (“different”) + -onym (“name”). Compare Ancient Greek ἑτερώνυμος (heterṓnumos). First attested in 1885 in sense 1. The coining of this term in sense 3 (as Portuguese heterónimo) is usually attributed to Fernando Pessoa.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HETERONYM · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Portuguese.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HETERONYM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 49 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HETERONYM starts with H and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read EEHMNORTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start HETERO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found HETERONYM?
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.
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