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HINGS

/hɪŋ/5 letters

Definition of HINGS

Wiktionary has no entry for HINGS itself. This is its base word, HING.

verb

alternative form of hang.

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

HINGS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 2 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
51
First board
92
Latest board
41
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 92, 20 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

notthaqw

on Day 51, 10 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HINGS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HINGS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read GHINS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

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 HINGS?

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 51 - and most players walked straight past it.

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