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HODAGS
Definition of HODAGS
noun
plural of hodag
noun
A fictional animal in Wisconsin folklore, having a head like an ox, the bulging eyes of a frog, huge claws, a row of spikes down its back, and a dinosauric body and tail.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HODAG · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HODAGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HODAGS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADGHOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found HODAGS?
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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.
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