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HINTER
Definition of HINTER
noun
Agent noun of hint: someone who hints.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hint + -er.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HINT · 4 relatives in the game
HINTER in a sentence
“People who lived in hinter-coastal communities in those early times, as well as in recent centuries, have long lived with an awareness that their communities form part of a large global network.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HINTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 171 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HINTER starts with H and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EHINRT - 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 HINTER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found HINTER?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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