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HINT

/hɪnt/4 letters

Definition of HINT

noun

A clue.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English hinten, hynten, variant of henten (“to lay hold of, catch”), from Old English hentan (“to seize, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *hantijan, from Proto-Germanic *hantijaną. Doublet of hent. Related also to hunt.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

HINT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 111
Its 7 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
24
First board
111
Latest board
55
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.

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Built from these letters

HINT
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HINT starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read HINT - 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.

Words that start HINT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

HINTSHINTEDHINTERHINTERSHINTINGHINTINGSHINTINGLYHINTERLANDHINTERLANDS

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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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.

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