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HIDLINGS
Definition of HIDLINGS
Wiktionary has no entry for HIDLINGS itself. This is its base word, HIDLE.
noun
Alternative form of hiddle.
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Word DNA
HIDLINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, HIDDLE.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Scots
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,961)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HIDDLE · 2 relatives 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.
HIDLINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 161, 28 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HIDLINGS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DGHIILNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found HIDLINGS?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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