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HONORABLE
Definition of HONORABLE
adjective
Behaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English honourable, from Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“to honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. By surface analysis, honor + -able. In this sense, largely displaced Old English ārfæst.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,817)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Italian, Old English, Spanish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HONORABLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HONORABLE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEHLNOOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start HONORA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
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