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HIVED

/haɪvd/5 letters

Definition of HIVED

verb

simple past and past participle of hive

HIVE

noun

A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.

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Word DNA

HIVED inherits its ancestry from its root, HIVE.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. German
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,595)

How it is built

verb1 syllable

Same root, HIVE · 9 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Danish, Dutch, Latin, Sanskrit.

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Rarity score
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

HIVED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 164
Its 20 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
20
Boards found on
62
First board
154
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 62, 21 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

jrcartmell

on Day 62, 21 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HIVED
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HIVED starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEHIV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found HIVED?

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 62 - and most players walked straight past it.

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