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HIERARCHS

9 letters

Definition of HIERARCHS

noun

plural of hierarch

HIERARCH

noun

One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order.

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Word DNA

HIERARCHS inherits its ancestry from its root, HIERARCH.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Ancient Greek
  3. Latin
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,595)

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, HIERARCH · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Sanskrit.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

HIERARCHS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 165
Its one board, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
25
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 25 days.

First ever to find it

cptn_vuvuzuela

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HIERARCHS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

HIERARCHS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEHHIRRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. H and R appear more than once.

Words that start HIERAR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

HIERARCHHIERARCHYHIERARCHALHIERARCHICHIERARCHIESHIERARCHISEHIERARCHISMHIERARCHIZEHIERARCHICALHIERARCHIZEDHIERARCHIZESHIERARCHIZING

Could you have found HIERARCHS?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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