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HONORARY
Definition of HONORARY
adjective
Given as an honor, with no duties attached, and without payment.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From honor + -ary, modelled after French honoraire, from Latin honōrārius.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,330)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HONORARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First found by a player on Day 152, 19 October 2026.
Built from these letters
HONORARY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AHNOORRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and R appear more than once.
Words that start HONORA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HONORARY?
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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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