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HILL
Definition of HILL
noun
An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English hil (“hill”), from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *hulli (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“top, hill, rock”) (compare also Proto-Germanic *halluz (“stone, rock”)). Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Faroese hólur (“hill”), Icelandic and Old Norse hóll (“hill”), Norn hul (“hillock”), Norwegian hol (“low hillock”), Swedish kulle (“hill”), Catalan coll (“hill”), Italian colle (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Lithuanian kalnas (“hill, mountain”), Albanian kallumë (“big pile, tall heap”), Russian холм (xolm, “hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,589)
How it is built
Same root, HILL · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Catalan, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Middle Dutch, Norwegian, Old Norse, Russian and 1 more.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HILL in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 67 days.
First found by a player on Day 76, 4 August 2026.
Built from these letters
HILL starts with H and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read HILL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start HILL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HILL?
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