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HISTORY
Definition of HISTORY
noun
The aggregate of past events, both unrecorded and recorded.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (“chronicle, history, story”) (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”), from ἱστορέω (historéō, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ἵστωρ (hístōr, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Doublet of story and storey. Attested in Middle English in 1393 by John Gower, Confessio Amantis, which was aimed at an educated audience familiar with French and Latin.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,625)
How it is built
Same root, HISTORY · 2 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HISTORY in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 75 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HISTORY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read HIORSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HISTOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HISTORY?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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