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HONESTY
Definition of HONESTY
noun
The act, quality, or condition of being honest.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English honeste (“honour, integrity”), from Old French honesté (compare modern French honnêteté). By surface analysis, honest + -y. Displaced native Old English sōþfæstnes and non-native Middle English prodonomee, from Old French prodomie. The plant is named so after the visibility of the seeds through the translucent pods.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (836)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HONESTY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HONESTY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EHNOSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HONEST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found HONESTY?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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