The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HOLE
Definition of HOLE
noun
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol (“hole”), from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow. Cognate with Dutch, Faroese, and Icelandic hol (“hole”), Danish hul (“hole”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norn hola (“hole”), Norwegian Bokmål hol (“depression, hole, cavern”), Swedish hål (“hole”), French houle (“swell of water”). Compare unrelated Finnish kolo (“hole”).
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.
HOLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HOLE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EHLO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start HOLE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found HOLE?
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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER