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HOMELESS
Definition of HOMELESS
adjective
Lacking a permanent place of residence.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English *homles, *hamles, from Old English hāmlēas (“homeless”), equivalent to home + -less. Cognate with Dutch heemloos, Danish hjemløs (“homeless”), Swedish hemlös (“homeless”). Compare also German heimatlos (“homeless”), Icelandic heimilislaus (“homeless”), West Frisian dakleas (“homeless”, literally “having no roof, roofless”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,152)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, German, Icelandic, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HOMELESS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HOMELESS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEHLMOSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and S appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start HOMELE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HOMELESS?
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