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HONOR

/ˈɒn.ə/5 letters

Definition of HONOR

noun

Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration .

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Where it comes from

From Middle English honour, honor, honur, from Anglo-Norman honour, honur, from Old French honor, from Latin honor. Displaced native Old English hād and Middle English menske (“honor, dignity among men”) (though survived in descendant mense (“property, civility, etc.”)), from Old Norse menskr (“honor”). The verb is from Middle English honouren, honuren (“to honor”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

HONOR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 10 boards so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its 10 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
10
Boards found on
9
First board
118
Latest board
33
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.

Built from these letters

HONOR
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HONOR starts with H and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read HNOOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start HONOR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

HONORSHONOREDHONOREEHONORERHONORANDHONORARYHONOREESHONORERSHONORINGHONORABLEHONORABLYHONORANDS

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