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HONDA
Definition of HONDA
noun
A closed loop or eyelet at one end of a lariat or lasso, through which the other end of the rope is passed to form a much larger loop.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Probably from Spanish honda, fonda (“sling”), from Latin funda (“hand-sling”); or from Spanish hondón (“eye of a needle”), from hondo (“bottom; deep, profound”) (from Latin fundus (“bottom, lowest part”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ-(m)n-o, from *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”)) + -ón (augmentative suffix).
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.
HONDA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 60, 19 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 51 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 34, 23 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HONDA starts with H and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ADHNO - 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.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found HONDA?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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