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HOLESOME

8 letters

Definition of HOLESOME

adjective

Obsolete form of wholesome.

WHOLESOME

adjective

Promoting good physical health and well-being.

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Word DNA

HOLESOME inherits its ancestry from its root, WHOLESOME.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,847)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompound-some

Same root, WHOLESOME · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

HOLESOME in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 163
Its 2 boards, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
83
First board
153
Latest board
70
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 83, 11 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

ckthorp

on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HOLESOME
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HOLESOME starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EEHLMOOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and E appear more than once.

Words that start HOLESO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HOLESOME?

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 83 - and most players walked straight past it.

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