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HIVE
Definition of HIVE
noun
A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi, from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”). See also Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”); also Latin cūpa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη (kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप (kū́pa, “cave”). Doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve. The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see this for more.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 51 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 116, 13 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HIVE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EHIV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HIVE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 13
Could you have found HIVE?
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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.
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