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HOMESTAY
Definition of HOMESTAY
noun
A system whereby students, visiting a foreign country to study, board with a local family at an affordable price.
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Where it comes from
From home + stay, nowadays a reborrowing from Japanese ホームステイ (hōmusutei).
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.
HOMESTAY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 86, 14 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 23, 12 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HOMESTAY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEHMOSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HOMEST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found HOMESTAY?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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