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HOBO
Definition of HOBO
noun
A wandering homeless person, especially one illegally travelling by rail or a penniless, unemployed bum.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unknown. Possibly a contraction of ho, boy or the dialectal English term hawbuck (“lout, clumsy fellow, country bumpkin”).
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.
HOBO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 33 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HOBO starts with H and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read BHOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
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 HOBO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found HOBO?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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