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HIRE
Definition of HIRE
noun
A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English hire, hyre, here, hure, from Old English hȳr (“employment for wages; pay for service; interest on money lent”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūʀiju (“payment”), from the verb *hūʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *hūzijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewHs- or *kweHs-. Compare Hittite 𒆪𒊭𒀭 (kuššan-, “fee, pay, wages, price”). Cognate with West Frisian hier (“hire”), Dutch huur (“lease, rental”), German Low German Hüür (“lease, rental”).
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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.
HIRE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HIRE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EHIR - 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 HIRE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found HIRE?
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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