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HOARSE
Definition of HOARSE
adjective
Having a dry, harsh tone to the voice, as a result of a sore throat, age, emotion, etc.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English hors, hos, from Old English hās, *hārs, from Proto-Germanic *haisaz, *haisraz, akin to Old Norse háss (West Norse) and heiss (East Norse) (whence Icelandic hás, Norwegian Nynorsk hås, Norwegian Bokmål hes and Swedish hes).
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.
HOARSE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 44 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 15, 4 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HOARSE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEHORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start HOARSE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found HOARSE?
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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
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