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HOMER

/ˈhəʊmə/5 letters

Definition of HOMER

noun

A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6+⁄2 US bushels.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Hebrew חומר / חֹמֶר (khómer, “clay, heap, large unit of volume”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

HOMER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 49 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 15 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards found on
19
First board
106
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

sammiruss

on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HOMER
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HOMER starts with H and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EHMOR - 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 HOMER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HOMER?

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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.

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