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HIYA
Definition of HIYA
interjection
An informal greeting, hi, hello.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Shortened from how are you?, with influence from hi. US, 1940s.
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.
HIYA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 92, 20 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 92, 20 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HIYA starts with H and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AHIY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found HIYA?
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 92 - and most players walked straight past it.
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