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HINDERED

8 letters

Definition of HINDERED

verb

simple past and past participle of hinder

HINDER

verb

To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.

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Word DNA

HINDERED inherits its ancestry from its root, HINDER.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.5%

of traced words share this origin (937)

Germanic

branch · 22.8% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, HINDER · 1 relative in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, Latin.

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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.

HINDERED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 136
Its 3 boards, across 136 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
131
First board
134
Latest board
2
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

silver

on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HINDERED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HINDERED starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DDEEHINR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and E appear more than once.

Words that start HINDER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

HINDERHINDERSHINDERERHINDERERSHINDERINGHINDERANCEHINDERINGSHINDERLANDHINDERLANSHINDERLINSHINDERMOSTHINDERANCES

Could you have found HINDERED?

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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.

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